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Case of Malignant Cholera in which Thirty-two Grains of Chloral-Hydrate were Hypodermically Injected: Recovery

1878; BMJ; Volume: 2; Issue: 925 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1136/bmj.2.925.435

0959-8138

A. R. Hall,

Cancer Research and Treatments

THE BARI7SH MEDICAL 7?NAL 435 than Axenstein, and directed north-est, it must be cooler than either Axenstein or Axenfels, and is suited for a residence when these hotels become too warm.The season is said to begin the ist or x5th of June.I was so much pleased with this house, that I mentally resolved to make it my head-quarters if ever I spend the month of June on the Lake of Lucerne.It is but little known to the English.and is princi- pally frequented by first-class Germans.The station is Stanystad, on the right arm of the lake, fifty minutes from Lucerne.The Kurhaus Sonnerberg, at Seelisberg (2,772 feet), is just opposite Brunnen and Axenstein, nearly five hundred feet higher, and directed due north, with a higher shading mountain to the north.Conse- quently, it is much cooler, as I myself perceived, for I descended from one and ascended to the other the same day.It is also about two hours by steamer from Lucerne, the road winding up through pastures and beech and pine forests from the landing-place, Troile, where car- riages are always waiting.The Sonnenberg Hotel is a little town, with three hundred beds, large reception and dining-rooms, music three times a day, and a village of accessories and outlying works It is full of life, bustle, and animation, which suits many even in a mountain sanitarium.I presume that, in a climatic sense, it is pretty much in the same condition as Burgenstock, except that it is sheltered on the south-west side by high mountains (Seelisberg, 6,316 feet), and is not, consequently, so much exposed to wind.Engelberg (3,314 feet) is at the head of a valley-that of Engel- berger Aa-which opens out at Stanz, whence starts also the road to Burgenstock, and is thirteen miles from Stanz.For the first nine miles, the rise is all but imperceptible, and the valley wide and fertile.The last six miles are through a romantic beech and fir-clad Alpine gorge, which opens out into the Engelberg valley proper, an amphi- theatre of grass and fir-forest, backed by the Titlis mountain (IO,515 feet).The glaciers of the latter descend into the amphitheatre, and are within an hour or two's walk of the Sonnenberg hotel.This hotel is a large, commodious, well appointed, well kept, and reason- able house, with above two hundred beds.Being 3,314 feet high and in proximity to the extensive glaciers of the Titlis, the climate is cooler than that of the stations on the lake already described.I was told that the nights are always cool and pleasant; but still the midday heat must be considerable even at this elevation in hot weather in July and August.I have always found it so at this height in Switzerland.At Grindelwald, where I am now writing, at an elevation of 3,418 feet, the thermometer is at midday 76 deg. in my shaded room, with glaciers all round in front of my windows, within a rise of 200 feet ; whilst out-of-doors it is insufferably hot even on the glaciers, I am told