Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donne.

Alfred François Donné

Date:: 1872

Credit: Change of air and scene : a physician's hints with notes of excursions for health amongst the watering-places of the Pyrenees, France (inland and seaward), Switzerland, Corsica, and the Mediterranean / by Alphonse Donne. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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$joining their property, purchased Vernet, to which they retired ; and employing the resources of their minds as well as their savings for the improvement of the establishment, they made of It all I shall presently describe to you—an establishment which IS unique as regards its new and model conditions. The partnership of these two brethren-in-arms was nearly disturbed for a while, not by discord, the most perfect unanimity having always existed between them, but by circumstances they had not foreseen. Having put everything in common without a contract, and merely on their o^vn word—which between military men is an engagement of honour—they did not think of what would happen after them; the survivor was to inherit the property of the other. On this simple engagement they set to work, and though the spirit of enterprise be as yet little developed in that part of France, their intelligence and resolution inspired con- fidence, and the capital they wanted was offered to them by numerous fnends. Hence arose rather complicated interests in the future, about which they would have troubled themselves but little as far as they were concerned. But an event they had not foreseen came about. They hved almost like bachelors as they had no children, though one of them had long been m'ar ned When, behold! one fine day-thanks being due to the virtue of the baths, or to one of the causes which the researches of Dr Negrier, of Angers, have revealed to us-when behold ' I say the wife of one of these gentlemen brought a fine child into the world, then a second, and lastly a third. Hence, as may be conceived, a great complication in this hitherto simple partnership, and a difficult subiect of reflection ou^*] tV longer equal The contract, founded on indifference to the future dismherited the new family, and necessarily troubled the mind of one of the contracting parties. But is not everything easily arranged between old friends ? Did these bretlueiL-arms nc^ lr.r\'n ^^'^ ^l^iW^- of the one not the children of the other ? Wherefore the convention as o the survivor could subsist, and was in fact maintained between$