. Annals of medical history. Montaignes house at Bordeaux. may be drunk in any quantity, and that thesharpness before named may give it a certainsavour and make it easier to swallow. . Igathered faint hope of making a cure when Iread an inscription on the wall, written by acertain man who cursed his physician forhaving sent him to such a place, and artirmedthat he had suffered much ill from his stay , the proprietor hinted to me that Ihad come too late in the season, and certainlydid not urge me to take the waters. 340 Ajvials of Medical History THE RETURN TO FRANCE When Montaign
. Annals of medical history. Montaignes house at Bordeaux. may be drunk in any quantity, and that thesharpness before named may give it a certainsavour and make it easier to swallow. . Igathered faint hope of making a cure when Iread an inscription on the wall, written by acertain man who cursed his physician forhaving sent him to such a place, and artirmedthat he had suffered much ill from his stay , the proprietor hinted to me that Ihad come too late in the season, and certainlydid not urge me to take the waters. 340 Ajvials of Medical History THE RETURN TO FRANCE When Montaigne got word of his electionas mayor of Bordeaux and received intima-tions from the king that he ought to accepthe started home and traveled by forcedmarches, though not omitting to see all hecould on the way. He was in Rome whenthe more urgent summons reached him. Hisdaily rides frequently amounted to twentyand thirty miles. How vital to the invalid. The Fort du Ha, opposite Montaignes house in Bordeaux was the condition of the roads! The high-ways of Tuscany had recently been im-proved and leveled by the Grand Duke andwe can understand Montaignes fervor inpraying that God might reward him for thiswork of the greatest service to the leaving Parma we changed horses atevery post and for 2 posts I made them goat full gallop so as to test the strength ofmy loins. I felt no ill effects or wearinesstherefrom. These few words tell more thanvolumes of description. We picture a wearytraveler tortured by the hardships of theroad and his trying bodily ailments butnever losing his pluck. He was taken sickthe night he reached Siena. I suffered for two hours from colic, and Ifancied I felt the movement of a stone. Earlyon Thursday morning I went to see one Gug-lielmo Felix, a Jewish doctor, who talked tomesome time as to my general rule of living withregard to my kidneys and the gravel. I then left Siena, and was again troubled with c
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