Excerpt from Our Life in the Swiss Highlands
It has long been acknowledge that high Alpine air in summer is beneficial to people suffering from lung troubles, but only of late years, and in one locality has the experiment of a winter residence at a considerable elevation above the sea been made. The general results of that experiment are so satisfactory that the conditions of life in winter at Davos, and the advantages it offers to invalids, ought to the fairly set before the English public. my own experience of eight months spent at Davos, between August 1877 and April 1878, enables me to speak with some confidence; while a long previous familiarity with the health-stations of the Riviera- Cannes. Bordighera, Nice, Mentone, and San Remo - furnishes a standard of comparison between two methods of cure at first sight radically opposite.
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