Climatist

In proof of which, let any man live on one side and then on the other side of a hill, or North and South—or even on the same side, so one part of that side be sheltered from the wind by trees, and the others open. A test like this is worth all the theories of all the climatists and meteorologists in the world.

Climatists, Benjamin Rush among them, attributed the disease not to the influx of tropical residents but to a season of unusually tropical weather in Philadelphia. […] Climatists and contagionists both viewed nativity or nationality as indices of susceptibility to the fever.