On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

Date:
1881
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Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. 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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    The circumstances connected with the establishment of this company, and with its adoption of my plans, were related by An Old Eesident, in a local newspaper called The Bournemouth Visitor's List, of November 20th, 1880, as follows:— A few eminent medical men in London conceived the idea of erecting, in a health}^ locality on the south coast, an institution for the reception of invalids and others of the upper classes requiring change of air, or for visitors on pleasure, or residents who might desire to embrace the residential club system and free themselves from the cares of household management, etc. . . . After a most careful review of possible sites for such an establishment, they selected Bournemouth as the best, as this well-known health resort—' the town in a pine forest'—is equally adapted for residence both in summer and in winter. It possesses the further advantages of easy access from all parts of the kingdom, shelter from cold winds, a dry soil, and freedom from fogs and decaying vegetation. . . . Many eminent medical men had already expressed their approval of the design, and a medical council had been formed to assist the directors in carrying it out, wlien it was put before Dr. Horace Dobell, with the request that he would allow his name to be added to the list of those approving of the design and purpose of the intended institution [then called the Glen Sanatorium ], and that he would receive a representative of the committee of management with the plans of the proposed building. It happened that, unknown to the projectors of this work [the Glen Sanatorium], Dr. Dobell had just ad- dressed a paper to the medical profession at Bourne- mouth, which he had printed and privately circulated