A physician's holiday, or, A month in Switzerland in the summer of 1848 / by John Forbes.
- John Forbes
- Date:
- 1850
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A physician's holiday, or, A month in Switzerland in the summer of 1848 / by John Forbes. 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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![A PHYSICIA]S'S HOLIDAY, A MONTH IN SWITZERLAND. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. VARIOUS FORMS OF THE PHYSICIAN'S HOLIDAY — THE AUTHOR's — HIS MOTIVES FOR REPORTING IT—NATURE AND CONTENTS OF THE BOOK —APOLOGIES—HINTS TO TRAVELLERS IN SWITZERLAND—NECESSARY PREPARATIONS. It is well known to be the custom with Physicians in London to absent themselves from town for some weeks in the end of summer or beginning of autumn, with the view of recruiting their health after the labours of the pre- ceding nine months, and laying in a stock of strength and spirits for the ensuing busy season. The modes of spend- ing this period, and the localities in which it is spent, are, of course, extremely various. They who are fortunate enough to possess country houses of their own, go to them, and there indulge in farming, gardening, tree-felling, walk-making, or any other of the well-known rural contrivances for letting the brain he fallow, and killing time in an easy way. Sporting doctors fix the day of their departure from town either on the 12th of August, the 1st of September, or the 1st of October, according as their love is, respec- tively, for grouse, partridge, or pheasant; and their desti- nation is determined accordingly, to the hills of Scotland, to the northern moors, or to the stubble fields nearer home. The salmon-fisher retires to the river-side inns of Wales or Scotland. The lover of trout, if he cannot make his hohday terminate early in September, must be content to postpone](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21052608_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
