Barometer Dr. T.W. Burford, England, placed great reliance on his barometer. He said that if you will observe, the sudden deaths of invalids nearly always occur at the time of a rapid fall in barometer. They are all some-what affected by a falling barometer, but a rapid fall is dangerous. On a rising or high barometer, he says, the doctor has but little to do receives no urgent calls.
Somewhat akin to this is the superstition- which, probably is fact, not superstition-that sick people go out with the tide. A good many years ago a physician wrote a book asserting that high tide and low tide, the rising and the falling, could be calculated as well as at the interior as at the seaboard, and that the influence was the same, both as regards the death of patients and the birth of children. He said that if a confinement lasted over the low tide it would be delayed until the tide a that place began to fall. The same held good with dying persons.