Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by J.[sic] Burney Yeo.

Date:
1882
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Credit: Health resorts and their uses : being vacation studies in various health resorts / by J.[sic] Burney Yeo. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    the best qualities of an Englishman are, to a great extent, due to the character of the climate of the country he inhabits. His capacity for endurance, and for adapting himself to varying conditions and cir- cumstances, his energy in overcoming difficulties, his physical strength, are in some measure the outcome of his lifelong contest with unfavourable external conditions, and of those out-door exercises and sports to which he is driven in order to keep the blood actively circulating through limbs which would other- wise be chilled and benumbed ; or to keep his mind free from the melancholy and depression which inactivity under a leaden sky most surely induces. The return of every winter necessarily brings to many minds the consideration, where they can pass the next five or six months with the least inconve- nience and the greatest benefit to their healths. To the too numerous victims of pulmonary consumption, as well as to those who fear to become so, it is a question of the greatest import; and not to those alone, for increasing experience of climatic conditions and in- fluences shows that a vast number of other chronic maladies acquired in this climate are stayed in their course, and not infrequently altogether arrested by judicious change to more favourable external con- ditions. A few general considerations, therefore, as to the facts and principles which should guide us in the choice of a winter climate may not be uninteresting or unprofitable. It would be unwise within the limits of a single chapter to hamper oneself with any attempts at a strict classification, while an exhaustive survey of the whole series of winter health resorts would be, of course, impossible. It will be better to confine our consideration to those which are tolerably accessible, and especially to such as recent inquiries have brought more prominently before us. I have, in another chapter, entered fully into this question of the utility and scope of high mountain health resorts in winter, and especially of that portion of the question in which R