The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect / by William Marcet.

  • William Marcet
Date:
1883
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Credit: The principal southern and Swiss health resorts : their climate and medical aspect / by William Marcet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    respects. Cannes is too crowded^ and said to be somewhat expensive. Nice is too mncli a place of pleasure and too near Monaco and its gambling estab- lishment to be safe for young men; it is, moreover; a large town of fifty-five thousand inhabitants, and quite clashes with the idea of a rural life and its pleasant free mode of existence. Mentone or San Remo will be thought too relaxing, and as to Egypt, it is terribly far off, the sea voyage is very long, the climate too dry, and vegetation, except on the borders of the Nile, must be deficient in the realm of sand and dust. It is true that a voyage up the Nile in a dahabeah would be charming, but then there is the absence of medical advice in case of need, and the expense is very great. But what about Algeria; the sea voyage only takes about forty hours, and the fine steamers of the '' Com- pagnie Generale Transatlantique '^ have commenced plying twice a week from Marseilles to Algiers. Oh ! but Algeria would do no better j the accounts of its climate vary so much, and a French physician of repute writes that he derived no benefit to his health from spending a winter there. Then the sirocco is a fright- fully hot wind, loaded with dust from the desert, which, drying up everything, makes one feel miserable. There are, moreover, fewer English at Algiers than in the health resorts of the Riviera, and it looks a lonely place. Surely if no such resorts will do, Madeira or Tene- riffe may offer the desired requirements; but no, cer- tainly not, they will answer no better, the thoughts of
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