Epidemiological essays / by F.G. Crookshank.

  • Francis Graham Crookshank
Date:
1930
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Credit: Epidemiological essays / by F.G. Crookshank. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    pools, where (as erstwhile at Bath) the sick and infirm may move about freely in the healing waters. It is to be sincerely hoped that Chaudesaigues will always remain free from all sophistication, from all provision of “ stunt ” treatment of every kind, and that commercialism will never intervene under cover of “ science ” to destroy the efficacy of Nature’s own remedies, at a profit. But the simple, warm bathing pool, such as is so wisely provided at Droitwich, in Worcestershire, is of incalculable benefit to very many persons, and is always appreciated by those who believe in the value of personal effort during the conduct of a cure. However, Chaudesaigues is not a wealthy municipality, and for a visitor the cost of living, as well as the cost of treatment, is low, and it may be that increased accom¬ modation will only be provided when the State intervenes helpingly or some capitalist founds a Societe anonyme des Thermes. Meanwhile, the sufferer from any of the maladies so well treated at Chaudesaigues, unless he can walk about freely, had best, I think, engage a room at the Etablissement Thermal, still controlled by Madame Veuve Ginisty—one of those wonderful women only to be found in France—who with dignity and matriarchal calm sees to it that the traditions of her pensionnat are worthily upheld by the daughters and sons-in-law and granddaughters and great-grandchildren who take part in the activities of the season. He will then obtain his morning treatment without the necessity of leaving the precincts; he will rest after the bath in his own room, and will drink his waters in the courtyard below. For
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