WEATHER INFLUENCES...Mental & Physiological Effects... [First Edn.]

by Dexter, Edwin Grant

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NY:: Macmillan,, 1904. Hardcover; Hamilton College (NY) bookplate; no card pocket or spine marks/label; spine ends worn; otherwise, condition good.. bibliography + index. With in-text b&w charts. Lively recounting of weather proverbs, the `Skyey Influences,' animal weather lore, weather influences in literature, & light-handed presentation of studies suggesting correlations between certain kinds of weather conditions & their effects on children, crime, insanity, health, suicide, drunkenness, paying attention, etc. ||| For most people, life has markedly changed since 1904, but the effects of a sunny Spring day, or the gloom of double-darkened clouds are still the same.