The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect . SOUTHEEN AKD SWISS HEALTH EESOETS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School ^rOOmarc THE PRINCIPALSOUTHERN AND SWISS HEALTH RESOETS THEIE CLIMATE AND MEDICAL ASPECT BY WILLIAM MARCET, , OF THB BOTAL OF PHT8ICIANS; LATK SENIOR ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THK WESTMinSTBB HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL FOtt CONSUMPTION AND DISKASES OF THE CHEST, BBOMPTON; CONSDLTING PHYSICIAN IN LONDON TO THE
The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect . SOUTHEEN AKD SWISS HEALTH EESOETS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School ^rOOmarc THE PRINCIPALSOUTHERN AND SWISS HEALTH RESOETS THEIE CLIMATE AND MEDICAL ASPECT BY WILLIAM MARCET, , OF THB BOTAL OF PHT8ICIANS; LATK SENIOR ASSISTANT PHYSICIAN TO THK WESTMinSTBB HOSPITAL, AND HOSPITAL FOtt CONSUMPTION AND DISKASES OF THE CHEST, BBOMPTON; CONSDLTING PHYSICIAN IN LONDON TO THE INVALID LADIKS HOME, CANNKS; FELLOW OFTHB CHEMICAL AND M KTEOBOLOGIC AL SOCIETIES) CORRESPONDING MBMBBH OF THE SOCIKTE DB .BIOLOGIE OP PABI8, AND SOCIKTE DE PHYSIQUE KT DHISTOIBB NATUBBLLB of GEItBVA, ETC. LONDONJ. & A. CHURCHILL 11, NEW BUELINGTON STEEET 1883 b b V Vi PREFACE On my return to London, after spending threewinter seasons at Nice and six at Cannes, engaged inmedical practice, it occurred to me that the experienceI had acquired of the influence of southern climates oninvalids might form the main subject of a book notaltogether wanting in medical and public utility. Avisit to Madeira and the Canary Islands afforded me anopportunity of inquiring into the character of thesestations as health resorts^ while a long acquaintancewith many of the places in Switzerland, patronised byinvalids in search of health, has enabled me to includethem also in the present work. The Yillage of Davos,situated in one of the highest Swiss valleys, has earnedfor itself a well-deserved reputation as a winter sani-tarium for the treatment of consumption, and anaccount of this station will be found in the followingpages. While wintering on the Riviera I made carefulobservations of the weather, tempprincipalsouther00marc
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