Excerpt from The Principal Health-Resorts of Europe and Africa for the Treatment of Chronic Diseases The-invalid must make pleasant journeys, in good company, and, above all, if possible, in good spirits. I pity the man, says Sterne, who can travel from Dan tq Beersheba, and cry 'tis all barren so it is, and so is all the world to him who will not cultivate the fruits it offers. And how often does the traveller meet in almost every place a tourist of the family, described by the author of the Sentimental Journey, who tells us that, The learned Smellfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris, 'from Paris to Rome, and so on; but he set' out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he passed by was discoloured or distorted. He wrote an account of them, but it was nothing but the account of his own miserable feelings. I met Smellfungus in the grand portico of the Pantheon; he was just coming out of it. It is nothing but a huge cockpit, ' said he. He had been flayed alive, and divided, and used worse than St Bartholomew at every stage he had come at. I'll tell it, ' cried Smell fungus, 'to the world.' You had better tell it, ' said I, 'to your physician. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.