The climate of the South of France : and its varieties most suitable for invalids ; with remarks on Italian and other winter stations / by Charles Theodore Williams.

  • Charles Theodore Williams
Date:
1867
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Credit: The climate of the South of France : and its varieties most suitable for invalids ; with remarks on Italian and other winter stations / by Charles Theodore Williams. 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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    being shut out from the south by the St. Angelo range, render them unfit for winter resorts for pulmonary patients. The accommodation at Sorrento is good, the food excellent, and the excursions in the neighbourhood numerous and charming; but the hotels and houses are built facing the north, and not so well suited for winter as for summer. Generally speaking, it is advisable for pulmonary invalids to return to Eng- land at the end of spring, and reap the advantage of a cool summer and more generous living. Should a patient, however, find it inconvenient to do so, and prefer to linger near his southern refuge, he will find in the beautiful Piano di Sorrento, the vast garden of oranges and vines in which the town lies, a locality for a summer residence, as enjoyable as it is healthy; combining the cool breezes of the Bay of Naples with its lovely views. The plain is three miles in length, and at an elevation of about 300 feet above the Mediterranean. It is besprinkled with villas, and from the varied colours of its vege- tation forms a beautiful prospect from the adjoining hills. We must not close this notice of the French and Italian winter stations without a parting tribute to the beautiful sea, which by its genial warmth con-
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