The French Riviera : Hyères as a health resort / by Ch.E. Cormack.

  • Cormack, Ch. E.
Date:
[1891]
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Credit: The French Riviera : Hyères as a health resort / by Ch.E. Cormack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [Keprinted from THE CLIMATOLOGIST, January, 1801^ THE FRENCH RIVIERA —H^JiftES AS A HEALTH RESORT. By CH. E. CORMACK, M.D., HYEEES, KRAHCE. C Op all the winter stations along the French Riviera, Hyeres, situated in the department of the Var, is the most southern, as a glance at the map will at once show. It is also the warmest and at the same time the one possessing the most equable temperature, and it has also the advantage of being the nearest to England. Hyeres proper, or the old town, lies on the southeast side of a hill, the Castle Hill, and is composed of a number of narrow steep streets. The houses, as a rule, entirely lacking in architec- tural beauty, are badly lit, indifferently ventilated, and devoid of most modern comforts. They are principally inhabited by the poorer classes. Very different is the new town or new quarter, with its stately mansions, handsome villas, splendid hotels, and public buildings, its magnificent avenues, wide streets, and public gardens. Naturally, it is in this part of the town that the invalids and visitors live. On the top of the hill is the Chateau of Hyeres ; the castle is 657 feet above the sea, and is supposed to have been built in the ninth century. Much of the ruins still remain, such as parts of the walls, towers, dungeons, etc. The town is distant from the sea three miles, while one of its suburbs, Costebelle, composed of one or two detached houses aud three large hotels surrounded by pine woods, is almost on the coast, thus giving Hyeres the advantage of a bracing and stimu- lating atmosphere for those cases requiring it, or, where the sea- air is too invigorating the relatively more sedative air of the town. Many patients are sent from the one to the other during the season for a little change with marked benefit, and as Hyeres town and Costebelle are both largely used by invalids, and as the temperature and rainfall are approximately the same for each, all