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HEALTH-RESORT.


Fox


years


a phthisical


embarrassing


the question, Where sha
or phthisically-inclined


one


to the


physician.


II I spend the winter ?


patient, has


Winter resorts, some of


them entirely dissimilar in the characteristics of their climate,
have risen or fallen in the estimation of the public, and, to
some extent, among medical men, according to the prevalence
or decline of a theory, or apparently even a fashion; and we
are still, to a great extent, at sea as to what is the most favor-


able


location


whether any


an invalid


change is desirable.


winter or


spring,


The cold and dry regions,
 reio r


e. g., Minnesota; the elevated regions, with their rarefied air,
e. g., the Engadine in Europe, the mountains of Peru in South


America, Laramie and Colorado in this country, have had their
pilgrims, and neither theory nor fashion seems to sustain their


reputation. The til
many years, absorb
lately fallen greatly


me-honored resorts of Italy, which, for so


ed almost


in the


the entire ii


estimation of


invalid travel, have
intelligent people,


who could not fail, after the charm of novelty and the haze of
romance had been dispelled, to see on how unstable a founda-
tion, in a climatic and hygienic point of view, her reputation


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been


based.


forts of Bennett,


Even Mentone, to


for a


long


series of


which the name and ef-
years, gave a fictitious


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been an


or even


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