The Health Resorts of Europe: A Medical Guide to the Mineral Springs, Climatic, Mountain, and Seaside Health Resorts, Milk, Whey, Grape, Earth, Mud, Sand and Air Cures of Europe (Classic Reprint)

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I suppose it will be agreed that the ma jority of mankind can be divided into two Classes - those who travel, and those who wish and hope to do so. The minority who re volve in a narrow orbit around their native place and have no desire to deviate into unexplored regions, is by no means consider able. The book of my friend, Dr. Linn, appeals to the majority, which may again be divided into a small group of doctors and a large group of patients and those in whom doctors are interested. It is probably be cause I have had an acquaintance, more or less intimate, for the space of half-a-century, with these various groups of humankind as well as with the places to which they tend in search of the treasures of health that I have been privileged to write these prefatory re.

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