Man : the general principles of medical climatology and their application to the climates of the south-east and south-west of France / by Sir Alexander Taylor ; translated from the French, printed in the Transactions of the Scientific Congress of France, 1873 ; edited by the Syndical Commission of Pau.

  • Taylor, Alexander, 1800-1879.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Man : the general principles of medical climatology and their application to the climates of the south-east and south-west of France / by Sir Alexander Taylor ; translated from the French, printed in the Transactions of the Scientific Congress of France, 1873 ; edited by the Syndical Commission of Pau. 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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    with, wretched houses sprinkled about on sand-hills, to be the Brighton of Pau, where there is now everything which can make life pleasant in the shape of the purest and health-restoring air, and with the adjuncts of first-class hotels, a well-organised club, an English church, and a good English phy- sician. Biarritz, although in the south-west zone of France, from its being on the sea, partakes much of the pro- perties of the climates of the south-east, and its climate is consequently exciting, like theirs, from the presence of free electricity and ozone in abundance; but the spring winds being very often westerly, and, with their variations, softened by passing over a temperature of sea higher than that of the land, have not the same irritating sharpness as those of the south-east, the Grulf Stream even exerting an influ- ence to this effect; indeed, in the months of March and April the fashionables of Pau, after a fatiguing winter campaign of dancing, dining, and hunting, repair to Biarritz to have their nervous system re- strung. It is pleasant to think that there cannot, at least ought never to be, any jealousy betwixt Pau and Biarritz, differing as they do in climate. A strict confederation ought to exist, based on scientific reasons and cemented by self-interest. The one will then come to be a feeder to the other. Biarritz will gradually take the place of some of the south-eastern stations, and we shall have the south-western zone of France a sanatorium for Europe. How often, from misdirection, do patients come to Pau who
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