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THE SANITARIAN.

JANUARY, 1896

NUMBER 314.

SANITARY BRUSHWOOD PICKED UP IN EUROPE.

By C. W. CHANCELLOR, M.D.

No. V.

VENICE-ITS CLIMATE AND SANITARY CONDITIONS.

FROM the celebrated baths of Acqui, near Turin, where I gathered the heap of "Brushwood" sent THE SANITARIAN a month ago, I have journeyed in Italy to Genoa, Pisa, Rome, Florence, Bologna, Milan, and, lastly, Venice, one of the most interesting spots in the world, and a far more healthfu place to live in than is usually believed, particularly if certain hygienic precautions are carefully observed.

It is difficult, and, perhaps, impossible to find a city which strikes the eye and impresses the fancy more remarkably than Venice. Not only has nature lavised peculiar beauties upon the place, but art has also adorned it with the choicest treasures, so that the city has become an immense museum where everything is most original, tasteful, and unique. The observer, admiring the splendid buildings around him, wonders how a community of merchants, always occupied in trade, politics, and warfare, could originate and superintend the construction and execution of so many marvels of grandeur which call to mind the fables of the "Arabian Nights." The elaborately wrought marbles in the palaces, the superb paintings and mosaics in the churches-above all in St. Mark's-symbolize the riches, grandeur, and wisdom of this once powerful people here, whose history is written, chapter by chapter, in tombs, monuments, and palaces.