Winter health resorts / by T. Lauder Brunton.
- Brunton, Thomas Lauder, Sir, 1844-1916.
- Date:
- 1884
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Winter health resorts / by T. Lauder Brunton. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![>; I fifty yards from the Kulm Hotel, and the lawn-tennis court is only about ten or twelve yards from the hotel. There are several toboggan runs—one, a short one, from the hotel door down through the village ; a long one from the hotel terrace down to the lake ; and another down a steep footpath leading to the village of Cresta. The nearness of the skating rink and lawn-tennis court to the hotel induces those to make use of them who would be deterred from doing so by a walk of even a few hundred yards. There is the further advantage that invalids who are too weak to take any active exercise are able to sit in the court or on the rink during a great part of the day enjoying the sunshine, while they are amused and interested by watching the sports. Arrangements are made by which it is unnecessary for them to come in to meals, their luncheon \ being brought out to them. Both the rink and the tennis- j court are so well sheltered frotn wind that although fully j open to the sunshine, invalids can sit out on most days without the least risk of chill. Some patients even far advanced in j consumption have done very well at St. Moritz, but probably ] the cases for which it is most suited are those where the j lungs are simply consolidated, or where softening is at least j not far advanced, and the patient retains a sufficient amount f of energy to enable him to take active exercise out of doors. |r We have seen cases of simple consolidation clear up at St. « Moritz in a way which was really marvellous, and we think # more rapidly than at any other health resort. Even mode- 'i rately-sized cavities contract and heal up. » St. Moritz is somewhat further than Davos, the difference | in distance being chiefly in the diligence journey. The J j traveller may take the route already mentioned to Chur, | leaving London at ten o^clock, and arriving about half past ^ * two the next day. He may rest at Chur all night, and take > the diligence or a private carriage up to St. Moritz. The diligence leaves at a quarter past five in the morning, necessi- tating an uncomfortable start for invalids. It arrives at St. Moritz at a few minutes past six at night. This early start may be avoided if the traveller, instead of staying at Chur all night, should take a carriage on to Thusis and sleep there.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22429475_0012.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
