Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball.

  • Reynolds-Ball, Eustace A. (Eustace Alfred), 1858-1928
Date:
1904
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Credit: Mediterranean winter resorts : a complete and practical handbook to the principal health and pleasure resorts on the shores of the Mediterranean, with special articles on the principal invalid stations by resident English physicians / by Eustace A. Reynolds-Ball. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    of the island. As a holiday resort, or even as a winter resi- dence for non-invalids, the island is in many respects equal to Ca]iri, which has become of late too exclusively the happy hunting-yround of the carpet-bag tourist and cheap tri]3per. In fact, the a-sthetic value of the latter island (once the head- quarters of a flourishing little art colony) has of late years rather deteriorated in the eyes of artists, owing to its jiopu- larity as a tourist centre. Ischia, on the other hand, besides being some three times the size of the islet desecrated by memories of that. deified beast Tiberius, is comparatively quiet and secluded, so that the primitive and unsophisticated character of its inhabitants has not been destroyed by daily crowds of passing English and American tourists.