The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    influence of the climate of Menton on those destined to pass the whole year there, produces, however, some diseases which are comparatively infrequent at Mce. * For my own part, I need hardly add that I do not share the opinion of those who consider Mentone the Utopia for invalids generally, and the climate -par excellence for pul- monary sufferers in particular. Less than an hour's journey by the railway beyond Mentone, and just within the Italian frontier, is the rival health resort of San Eemo, which, being some fifteen miles further from the gambling tables of Monaco, which are the real though unacknowledged centre of attraction for some tourists to the Eiviera del Ponente, is as yet less crowded by foreign valetudinarians. However, it already attracts a con- siderable number of winter residents; and having excellent hotel and lodging-house accommodation, and enjoying a climate very similar in all respects to that of Mentone, may be resorted to, or should be avoided by, the same classes of travellers for health. In fact the whole Eiviera from Nice to Spezia is studded over with small towns, such as Bordighera, Savona, Voltri, Nervi, and many others, which, having the same advantages of picturesque position and mildness of climate as Mentone, require only improved accommodation and well written and roseate-coloured medico-descriptive eulogy 'from some resident physician, to attract as many of the wealthy valetudinarian population of these islands, who are always seeking a new health resort, in which to escape the leaden sky and ungenial atmosphere of our winter climate. * A Notice of Menton, supplementary to Nice and its Climate, by Edwin Lee, M.D., p. 21.