Notes on Florence as a health resort / by Alex R. Coldstream.

  • Coldstream, Alexander Robert.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Notes on Florence as a health resort / by Alex R. Coldstream. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    NOTES ON FLORENCE AS A HEALTH RESORT.(1> It can hardly be said that the Tuscan capital has hitherto enjoyed the reputation of a health resort in the ordinary acceptation of the term. No mention of it is made in any of the manuals of health resorts. It is generally regarded rather as a pleasure resort for healthy persons, who are attracted by the wealth of its art treasures, its traditional interests, the beauty of its environs, the advantages of its educational insti- tutions, or the pleasures of its Society. Yet, although it be possessed of no mineral waters, nor any special methods of cure, Florence possesses in an eminent de- gree attractions for certain cases of chronic ill health. I find that some amount of misapprehension exists in the minds of many medical practitioners, both British and^foreign, as to the merits and climatic conditions of Florence; and, it is with the view of attempting to correct such, and to supply some simple details of Flo- rence life and its surroundings that I venture to ad- dress this Section to-day. At the one extreme, I have (1) Enlarged from a paper read at the Section of “ Pharmacology and Therapeutics ” at the Annual Meeting of the British Medical Association held at Glasgow, August, 1888.