Treatments … for bending the knees, mechanical treatments, baking in a box of mirrors with violet rays, massage, and baths examples of mechano-therapy mentioned in Chapter XII.
Kuk a mountain in present-day Slovenia.
Bainsizza plateau a plateau in present-day Slovenia.
Verona town in Veneto region of north Italy.
Hundred Years War series of English-French wars (1337–1453), in which England lost all of its possessions in France except Calais (lost to France in 1558).
marsala a dry or sweet, amber-colored fortified wine made in western Sicily.
Piacenza commune in north Italy, in Emilia-Romagna, on the Po River.
Tosca title of Puccini opera.
Modena commune in Emilia-Romagna region of north Italy.
Frisco (slang) San Francisco.
Torino Italian name for Turin, commune in the Piedmont region of northwest Italy, on the Po River.
Normal school a school, usually with a two-year program, for training high school graduates to be elementary schoolteachers.
