The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    speeches are among the principal causes of our unpopularity abroad. It may seem superfluous even to allude to the respect due by the traveller to the religious observances of the countries he visits, however much they may differ from his own. But I have more than once been present in foreign cathedrals when tourists, in the outward semblance of gentle- men, and I must add some dressed as ladies, have, by their grossly irreverent and scoffing demeanour, wantonly out- raged the most sacred feelings of congregations engaged in solemn worship. And, therefore, I feel justified in recom- mending any pilgrim in pursuit of health, whose zeal for his own faith is so strong that he cannot repress the manifestation of his intolerant contempt for the religious usages of others, not to seek a sanatarium beyond the limits of his own country. Next to his prejudices, his luggage is the great incumbrance of the traveller, and like them it should be reduced to the minimum, for it is always far better to buy whatever one finds wanting abroad than to have the trouble of carrying about unnecessary articles. The pilgrim in pursuit of health should, if possible, have some one of similar tastes and habits for his travelling com- panion. But the gregarious fashion of journeying now adopted by many is, I think, quite unsuitable for a valetudinarian, nor can I conceive any inducement which would persuade me to join one of the caravans of tourists who, not knowing anything of each other beforehand, bind themselves for a fixed period to perambulate foreign countries together under the direction