The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis.

  • Davis, John Bunnell, 1780-1824.
Date:
1807
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Credit: The ancient and modern history of Nice : comprehending an account of the foundation of Marseilles : to which are prefixed descriptive observations on the nature, produce, and climate of the territory of the former city, and its adjoining towns : with an introduction, containing hints of advice to invalids, who, with the hope of arresting the progress of the disease, seek the renovating influuence of the salubrious climes / by I. B. Davis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    To these reasons, may be added another, more powerful than any. Revenge beirtg natural to man, and jealousy one of the most inveterate Causes, it is not surprising that they, whose in- terests are blended with the obnoxious person, should fall the victims of resentment. Charles and Francis hated each other, and the latter could not bear to see the duke a partisan of his enemy. Whatever suspicions the French king might en- tertain of the duke's partiality to Charles, he no longer wanted a proof to corroborate it, when Nice was refused for the place of interview of his ma- jesty and the l^ope. But Francis should have remembered, although these circumstances were proofs of the duke's preference for Charles, that he had also received marks of friendship. The passage of the king's troops into Italy had always been allowed through his territory, and every assistance was given to expedite and ensure their march thither. The offer of resigning this towm, which wastlie entry into Italy from Provence, Geneva likewise, on the other confines, to Charles for an equiva-