Continental travel / with an appendix on the influence of climate, the remedial advantages of traveling, &c. By Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1848
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Continental travel / with an appendix on the influence of climate, the remedial advantages of traveling, &c. By Edwin Lee. 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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    CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Routes to Paris—Boulogne—Paris—French Characteristics—Recent Changes—Climate and Medical Practice . . . Page 1 CHAPTER II. Lyons—The Rhone—Marseilles—Climate of Provence—Hieres—Cannes Nismes—Montpelier—Canal du Midi . . . . 19 CHAPTER III. Toulouse — Pyrenean Baths — Bagneres de Luchon — Bagneres de Bigorre — Lourdes — Vale of Argeles — The Cagots — Bareges— St. Sauveur—Gavarnie—Cauterets and its Mineral Springs . 38 CHAPTER IV. Pau and its Climate—Eaux Bonnes and Chaudes—Inhabitants of the Pyrenees—The Landes—Bordeaux and its Climate—Tours . 60 CHAPTER V. Nice—Climate and Remedial Advantages—Cornice Road—Genoa—Road ^to Lucca—Lucca Baths 75 CHAPTER VI. Pisa and its Climate — Leghorn — Florence — Charitable Societies— Environs—Climate—Road to Rome .... 93