The health resorts of Europe : a medical guide to the mineral springs, climatic, mountain, and seaside health resorts, milk, whey, grape, earth, mud, sand and air cures of Europe / by Thomas Linn.

  • Linn, Thomas, 1845-
Date:
1894
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Credit: The health resorts of Europe : a medical guide to the mineral springs, climatic, mountain, and seaside health resorts, milk, whey, grape, earth, mud, sand and air cures of Europe / by Thomas Linn. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AUTHOR'S PREFACE. The treatment of acute disease has been much improved in our time. But neither the materia medica nor the newer surgical operations have much value in the relief or cure of those constitutional states called chronic maladies ; and for these some of the best forms of treatment are found in mineral waters, climatic resorts, sea-baths, and other hygienic therapeutical agents. It is quite possible that other waters are equal in medicinal value to those that are so much used in Europe, but it is certain that no other health resorts have reached the point of perfection that those abroad have. This is partly owing to the large experience gained by physicians who devote themselves to a life at these springs, and also to the fact that enterprising companies have built