Mentone in its medical aspect : being letters addressed to a medical friend / by James Lewis Siordet.

  • Siordet, James Lewis.
Date:
1863
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Credit: Mentone in its medical aspect : being letters addressed to a medical friend / by James Lewis Siordet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    latitude, and at a distance of thirty-two kilometres, nearly twenty English miles, to the east of Nice. This district and that of Roccabruna were purchased in 1860, from the Prince of Monaco, by the French Government; it is at the extreme limit of the Empire, the Italian frontier being at the Pont St. Louis, within two miles of the town. The territory of Mentone extends along a small gulf, from the Cape of St. Martin on the western side to Cape Murtola on the eastern ; it is subdivided into two small bays, of nearly equal size, by a spur of the mountain range running down into the sea. On this slope, down to the beach the town is situated, whilst on either bay are scat- tered, chiefly along the seashore, the principal boarding estabhshments, and a number of villas and larger houses letting in flats. The Cornice road runs through the low^er part of the town from east to west, constituting the main street; in this part, called the new^ town, the houses are