A comparative enquiry as to the preventive and curative influence of the climate of Pau and of Montpellier, Hyères, Nice, Rome, Pisa, Florence, Naples, Biarritz etc., on health and disease with a description of the watering places of the Pyrenees and of the virtues of their respective mineral sources / by Alex. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alex.
Date:
1856
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Credit: A comparative enquiry as to the preventive and curative influence of the climate of Pau and of Montpellier, Hyères, Nice, Rome, Pisa, Florence, Naples, Biarritz etc., on health and disease with a description of the watering places of the Pyrenees and of the virtues of their respective mineral sources / by Alex. Taylor. 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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    PAGE CHAPTER XXVII. Luz to Cauterets.— Passing Descriptions of Scenery.— Cauterets. — Ancient History and Present State. — Promenades.— Objects of Interest in the neighbourhood. — Izzard and Bear Hunting.— Trout Fishing . . . .302 CHAPTER XXVIII. Cauterets continued.— Description of the Individual Mineral Sources.— Their Analysis and Action on Disease . . .314 CHAPTER XXIX. Observations on the particular Influence of the Waters of the Eaux-Bonnes and Eaux-Chaudes on Disease.—Re- sume of the Facts and Reasonings contained in the Work, in reference to the Action of the Sulphurous Wa- ters.— Table of the approximate Pathologic Conditions of the System as to the Type of Disease and Tempera- ment of the Patient, applicable to each Source, in rela- tion to its Strength of Mineralization and High Degree of Temperature.— Eaux-Bonnes — Its Waters.— Eaux- Chaudes.— Its Waters ............ 327 CHAPTER XXX. Some cursory Notices of the Natural History of the Pyre- nees.— Birds and Beasts of Chase. — Enumeration of some Insects found in the Neighbourhood of the Water- ing-places.— The Chase of the Coq de Bruyere, Izzard, Bear, Wolf, and Ibex 340