Article Nº 2295 Physician or health professional Vol. II · p. 655
Mason (J. A.)
Edinburgh-trained physician who visited Madeira in 1834 for his lungs and wrote a posthumous treatise claiming Funchal was damper than London.
He was a doctor of medicine of the University of Edinburgh, although he had begun his medical studies in Paris. He visited Madeira in 1834 because of a lung complaint from which he was suffering, but, as he did not find here the improvement he had hoped for, he moved to another climate and died in Nice the following year, at the age of 27. Works: A Treatise on the Climate and Meteorology of Madeira. In this work, valuable for many reasons and not published until 1850, its author sought to prove that the climate of Funchal was damper than that of London and its surroundings!
People mentioned
- J. A. Mason d. 1835