The health resorts of the south of France, western division : Pau, Biarritz, Arcachon / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The health resorts of the south of France, western division : Pau, Biarritz, Arcachon / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the activity of the stomach; patients frequently experience difficult digestion, and a sensation of fulness in the epigastric region. Chalybeate pre- parations, especially chalybeate waters, are of great service in these cases, and this inconvenience generally disappears as soon as the nervous power regulating the artereal and venous circulation re- gains its equilibrium. All patients in the last stage of phthisis, who I have had opportunity of seeing, have been able to take food up to the last, A great number of strangers, who owe the recovery of their health to our climate, have fixed themselves at Pau, and have built handsome villas, where they come to reside every winter, which circumstance proves that the increased frequenta- tion is not referable to undue means of obtaining publicity. In my travels abroad I have met with but a small number of physicians who possess exact information respecting Pau. It is, however, very important, not only as respects our interests, but also as regards the welfare of invalids, that its advantages should be publicly known abroad. The few preceding observations will not achieve this object; I have rather pointed out what has not been done, and what yet remains to be done. Another resident physician already quoted. Dr. E. Cazenave, remarks,— The climatic reputation