 The effect of a breeze upon the feelings is well known to every person, even in comparatively temperate climates, but at low temperatures it becomes painful and almost insupportable. Thus, with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands,...  On the preservation of the health of body and mind - Page 8by Forbes Benignus Winslow - 1842Full view - About this book
 | Sir William Edward Parry - Arctic regions - 1824 - 700 pages
...low temperatures it becomes painful and almost insupportable. Thus, with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep them exposed so long without considerable pain. A high wind also had. great effect in occasioning a... | |
 | Charles Scudamore - Neuralgia - 1827 - 628 pages
...temperature it becomes painful and almost insupportable. Thus, with the thermometer at 55? below zero, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep them exposed so long without considerable pain*". In hot climates the limbs become affected in a peculiar... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - Arctic regions - 1828 - 332 pages
...low temperatures it becomes painful and almost insupportable. Thus, with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands, may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep them exposed so long without considerable pain. A high wind also had great effect in occasioning a... | |
 | Sir William Edward Parry - Arctic regions - 1835 - 354 pages
...temperatures it becomes painful, and almost insupportable. Thus, with the thermometer at — 36°, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...breeze, and the thermometer nearly as high as zero, few p people can keep them exposed so long without considerable pain. A high wind also had great effect... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 400 pages
...becomes painful and almost insupportable. " Thus," says Parry, " with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep their hands exposed so long without considerable pain." By means of Sylvester's stove, however, and... | |
 | Sir John Barrow - Arctic regions - 1846 - 574 pages
...becomes painful and almost insupportable. " Thus," says Parry, " with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep their hands exposed so long without considerable pain." By means of Sylvester's stove, however, and... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Arctic regions - 1857 - 1074 pages
...becomes painful, and almost insupportable. " Thus," says Parry, " with the thermometer at — 55°, and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep their hands exposed so long without considerable pain." The monotony of the scene was now greatly relieved... | |
 | Henry Goadby, Edward Kane, Moses Gunn - Medicine - 1856 - 424 pages
...Capt. Parry, " with the thermometer at fifty-five below zero (eighty-seven below the freezing point,) and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered for ten minutes or a quarter of au hour without inconvenience." And again he remarks, " when the thermometer was forty-nine degrees... | |
 | Albert James Bernays - 1866 - 428 pages
...frost-bites. " With the thermometer," says Captain Parry, "at — 55°(je 87° below freezing point) and no wind stirring, the hands may remain uncovered...thermometer nearly as high as zero, few people can keep them exposed so long without considerable pain." 728. The effect of any degree of heat or cold on the... | |
 | English periodicals - 1843 - 522 pages
...regions when accompanied by wind. Parry says — " With the thermometer at 87° below the freezingpoint (a fearful degree of cold), and no wind stirring,...themselves exposed so long without considerable pain." Different states of the body or mind, or both, influence greatly the power of resisting cold. Mr. \Vinslow... | |
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