jD?-. Clark's Medical Noles on Clhnaie, Diseases, ^c. ol 



consumptive patient. The recommendation of Smollet brought 

 Nice into fashion next ; i)Ut the fame of that place vanished also 

 as the number of tombs in the Croix de Marbre* increased. 

 Various other places got subsequently into repute, as Marseilles, 

 Hieres, Pisa, &c. But the preference given them respectively, 

 being founded not on experience, but on theoretical deductions 

 from latitude, vicinity of mountains, and so forth ; it is not sur- 

 prising that we should have only to record a succession of disap- 

 pointed hopes. It seems now confessed, that on this subject the 

 minds of English practitioners are quite undecided. " I had 

 abundant proofs of this," savs the author of the work before us, 

 *' in the contradictory advices which I found some of our most 

 celebrated physicians had given to the invalids I met with; some 

 of these being sent to the South of France indiscriminately; 

 others being recommended to Marseilles ; others to Hieres; many 

 to Nice : while not a few of their medical advisers candidly 

 avowed their ignorance of the most desirable residence, and left 

 the choice to the discretion of their patients." 



To assist in supplying the blank in our information on this 

 subject, is the design of the work now before us, which the au- 

 thor modestly desires to be considered " literally what it is de- 

 signated, as detached Notes on a few of the very numerous and 

 important objects presented to his view" in the course of two years 

 residence in different parts of the South of Europe. The places 

 which Dr. Clark treats of are Marseilles, Hieres, Nice, Villa 

 Franca, Pisa, Rome, Naples, Lausanne, and Geneva. He gives 

 first a short topographical account of each place, Init limited to 

 those circumstances which are interesting in a medical point of 

 view ; secondly, observations on its climate ; and thirdly, re- 

 marks on the diseases in which it seems useful or injurious, 

 founded on these observations, and on a knowledge of the ail- 

 ments to which the inhabitants are most liable. 



The information which the author furnishes on these heads is 

 extremely valuable. His remarks are acute and sensible ; and 

 have uniformly a strict reference to facts, to the exclusion of all 

 hypothetical speculation. We extr.act his general conclusion, 

 which the reader will find amply verified bv a perusal of the de- 

 tails on which it is founded. 



" I have now brought to a conclusion the observations I had 

 to make concerning the climates of those situations most fre- 

 quented by consumptive patients in France and Italy ; and I hope 

 I have put medical men in possession of some information that 

 may at least assist them in making up their minds on the pro- 

 priety of sending their patients to these climates, and also on 



• The Englisli burying-gjound at Nice. 

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