The Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal
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ISBN13: 9780217582179
Paperback|9780217582179
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: abandoned their mines, and retired to the colder regions, where Mr Marcos and his child recovered, and the goitre became much reduced in herself. I should from all these facts conclude, that in the Andine valleys of Peru goitre is never endemic above an elevation of from 9000 to 10,000 feet; and that if accidentally metwith in the Cordillera, it must have been contracted elsewhere. I may add on this subject information received by me regarding other parts of the American Continent: for example, Dr Dertruge (a most competent authority, as one of the medical attendants of the army of Bolivar in Venezuela, New Grenada, and Ecuador) tells me that he has seen some cases of goitre, and even of cretinism, in the warm district of Riobamba, and in the mild climates of the Quebradas, or glens of the hill lands of Quenca, less elevated than that of Quito; but that in New Grenada he has seen goitre of so enormous a size as nearly to conceal the face, and also cases of cretinism, especially in the provinces of Locovio, Marequita, and Ocana, but only in warm climates, never in the Cordillera, where it appears incapable of development. Dr Lorenti confirms these statements. On the Vestiges of Extinct Glaciers in the Lake Districts of Cumberland and Westmoreland. Part I. By Edward Hull, A.B., F.G.S. With two Plates. In the following pages I propose to describe the principal effects referable to glacial agency along the southern watershed of the range of mountains stretching from Bowfell on the west to High Street on the east; reserving for, I hope, a future occasion, the like phenomena of the northern slopes. This primary line of watershed passes across most of the highest points of the central chain along the limits of the two shires, and is a serious obstacle to intercommunication betwe...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217582179 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217582176 |
| Weight | 1.04 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.71 In |
| List Price | $23.74 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 318 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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