On the curative influence of the climate of Pau, and the mineral waters of the Pyrenees, on disease. With descriptive notices of the geology, botany, natural history, mountain sports, local antiquities, and topography of the Pyrenees. And their principal watering-places / by A. Taylor.

  • Taylor, Alexander, Sir, 1800-1879.
Date:
1842
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Credit: On the curative influence of the climate of Pau, and the mineral waters of the Pyrenees, on disease. With descriptive notices of the geology, botany, natural history, mountain sports, local antiquities, and topography of the Pyrenees. And their principal watering-places / by A. Taylor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ancient kingdom of which Pau was the capital, became incorporated with France as an integral part, it was renowned for the salubrity of its cli¬ mate : and there is not wanting in its history the evidence of illustrious names to vouch for its pre¬ eminence as a most favoured country. At the pre¬ sent day rigid statistics stamp it as the province of France, possessing par excellence a climate calculated to promote health, and to subdue certain kinds of disease, both organic and functional. While, also, to the invalid the waters of the neighbouring mountains, judiciously used, are of surpassing efficacy in the treatment of membranous disease, and a variety of symptoms which follow in its train, the Pyrenees themselves, an almost unex¬ plored country by the English tourist, afford ample field for recreating the mind and invigorating the body. Here the scholar, the botanist, the mineralogist, the artist, and the sportsman, will find varied and ample occupation. At Bagneres-en-Bigorre, for instance, we are brought back to the days of Augustus Caesar, the conqueror of Aquitania. Here the antiquary will meet with votive altars erected in that conqueror’s time, still in good preservation, and the remains of baths founded by his generals. Nor are antiquities of a later date, when England held sway over this and several other provinces of France, few or uninteresting. On the same moun-