Excerpt from Medical Notes on Climate, Diseases, Hospitals, and Medical Schools, in France, Italy, and Switzerland Letter addressed to John Forbes, M. D., Secretary of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall, and Physician to the Penzance Dispensary. Dear Sir, I Herewith, at length, transmit you the concluding portion of my notes on the Climate, Diseases, and Medical Practice of those places on the Continent which I have hitherto visited; and when I take a review of them thus finished, and such as they are to meet the eye of the Public, I confess to you that the sense of their unworthiness, which I originally urged as a motive for my declining to publish them when this measure was first suggested by yourself, presses on my mind more than ever. The die is however now cast, and all that remains for me, thus placed upon the stage, is to make the best excuse I can, first, for my appearance there at all, and secondly, for the indifferent part which I am apprehensive my Auditors and Judges may consider me as performing. I have therefore to request that you will affix this Letter by way of Preface to my Book, without addition or diminution. 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.