Villa Prinkipo
This "Villa" was probably built in the beginning of the 20th century by an american milliardaire (a lady) in love with Turquie.
Then, it was bought by the Docteur Vidouze.
I knew somme little things about Docteur Vidouze. He was a "real" french doctor, officially graduate and able to practice medecine but, he had studied "chinese medecine" (acupuncture) in China where he had spent some years (I think - some months seem to me too short to become the talentuous doctor he became). He had be saved by chinese doctors (acupuncture) when he was about to die in China (septicemia I think) and decided to know all about this strange medecine.
Remember that, untill the end of the WW2, antibiotics, sulfamids and many other medecines did not exist.
My mother was 20 in 1940. She was a very young mother and she was dying of asthma (the same desease than Marcel Proust who died of athma in 1922). She became asthmatic in 1939. As she was more and more ill, she was abandonned by traditionnal doctors who could not do anything for her. My father (22 years old) learnt about a strange doctor who was practising "chinese medecine" and who was doing miracles with patients who had no hope to recover with the traditionnal medecine.
Doctor Vidouze came in my grand-father's house (the one with the 9 decorations from the WW1) where my mother, my father and the little baby were living.
When he saw my mother, thin and pale, looking like a ghost, with large black under eyes, sad, sick, hardly breathing, exhausted...........
he looked at her right in the eyes and said "you want to die" (he said "tu" instead of "vous" as if she was a child but he always was saying "tu" to all his patients).
so
Dr Vidouze : "YOU want to die" ("TOI, tu veux mourir")
Mother : - YES, Doctor ("oui Docteur")
Dr Vidouze : "You are going to get up and to wash yourself" (tu vas te LEVER et tu vas te LAVER")
Then he had a look on the "medecines" that was on a table and said :
"that's what you are taking ?" ("c'est ce que tu prends") - Yes Doctor (she said) ("oui Docteur")
he said : "this is POISON" and he sent all by the window (in the little garden)
"You are like a chimney that has not been swept for years. You are going to do exactly what I'm telling you........."
He learnt to her how to eat, how to cook, how to wash, how to take care of her hygiene, he had many discussions with her, he gave her homeopatic medecine and - of course - he practiced acupuncture. He showed her the main points in her body to feel better, he learnt her how to prepare boiled water, put paper pen inside and then put the point of the pen on the very point....... He has been like a Pygmalion for her. He also said (remember we were in 1940) "you have to look for the reason why you have asthma. There something in your youth, a shock, a great pain, that is one of the main cause of your pain." (later, she found the reasons why)
He came every week for months, perhaps for years,..... this, I don't know. He did not ask for money, he was not yet the great, famous, rich doctor who was renting a floor of the Bradford Hotel (near La Madeleine) in Paris every month and he was not yet married with his assistant who surely was a business woman and who was taking the patients' money in Paris with her hands full of diamonds rings. Two years ago, I took care of a 86 years old lady who told me she was cured and saved by Doctor Vidouze in Paris............ I had a look on Google and found that Doctor Jacques Liron (born 1935) had written a book on his life. He is mentionning Doctor Vidouze. He was his assistant during some months at the beginning of his working life. He wanted to learn the Chinese medecine and he tells about his experience with Doctor Vidouze in this beautiful house.
I wish I have known Doctor Vidouze. I never met him. I've heard of him all my life by my mother who is still alive and also by this lady I met two years ago.
This house "Prinkipo" is now a sort of hotel with a golf.
PS : my mother died at the end of 2014 - she was 94 years old.
www.allo-golf.com/aquitaine/golf-chiberta/photos.htm#4
Villa Prinkipo
This "Villa" was probably built in the beginning of the 20th century by an american milliardaire (a lady) in love with Turquie.
Then, it was bought by the Docteur Vidouze.
I knew somme little things about Docteur Vidouze. He was a "real" french doctor, officially graduate and able to practice medecine but, he had studied "chinese medecine" (acupuncture) in China where he had spent some years (I think - some months seem to me too short to become the talentuous doctor he became). He had be saved by chinese doctors (acupuncture) when he was about to die in China (septicemia I think) and decided to know all about this strange medecine.
Remember that, untill the end of the WW2, antibiotics, sulfamids and many other medecines did not exist.
My mother was 20 in 1940. She was a very young mother and she was dying of asthma (the same desease than Marcel Proust who died of athma in 1922). She became asthmatic in 1939. As she was more and more ill, she was abandonned by traditionnal doctors who could not do anything for her. My father (22 years old) learnt about a strange doctor who was practising "chinese medecine" and who was doing miracles with patients who had no hope to recover with the traditionnal medecine.
Doctor Vidouze came in my grand-father's house (the one with the 9 decorations from the WW1) where my mother, my father and the little baby were living.
When he saw my mother, thin and pale, looking like a ghost, with large black under eyes, sad, sick, hardly breathing, exhausted...........
he looked at her right in the eyes and said "you want to die" (he said "tu" instead of "vous" as if she was a child but he always was saying "tu" to all his patients).
so
Dr Vidouze : "YOU want to die" ("TOI, tu veux mourir")
Mother : - YES, Doctor ("oui Docteur")
Dr Vidouze : "You are going to get up and to wash yourself" (tu vas te LEVER et tu vas te LAVER")
Then he had a look on the "medecines" that was on a table and said :
"that's what you are taking ?" ("c'est ce que tu prends") - Yes Doctor (she said) ("oui Docteur")
he said : "this is POISON" and he sent all by the window (in the little garden)
"You are like a chimney that has not been swept for years. You are going to do exactly what I'm telling you........."
He learnt to her how to eat, how to cook, how to wash, how to take care of her hygiene, he had many discussions with her, he gave her homeopatic medecine and - of course - he practiced acupuncture. He showed her the main points in her body to feel better, he learnt her how to prepare boiled water, put paper pen inside and then put the point of the pen on the very point....... He has been like a Pygmalion for her. He also said (remember we were in 1940) "you have to look for the reason why you have asthma. There something in your youth, a shock, a great pain, that is one of the main cause of your pain." (later, she found the reasons why)
He came every week for months, perhaps for years,..... this, I don't know. He did not ask for money, he was not yet the great, famous, rich doctor who was renting a floor of the Bradford Hotel (near La Madeleine) in Paris every month and he was not yet married with his assistant who surely was a business woman and who was taking the patients' money in Paris with her hands full of diamonds rings. Two years ago, I took care of a 86 years old lady who told me she was cured and saved by Doctor Vidouze in Paris............ I had a look on Google and found that Doctor Jacques Liron (born 1935) had written a book on his life. He is mentionning Doctor Vidouze. He was his assistant during some months at the beginning of his working life. He wanted to learn the Chinese medecine and he tells about his experience with Doctor Vidouze in this beautiful house.
I wish I have known Doctor Vidouze. I never met him. I've heard of him all my life by my mother who is still alive and also by this lady I met two years ago.
This house "Prinkipo" is now a sort of hotel with a golf.
PS : my mother died at the end of 2014 - she was 94 years old.
www.allo-golf.com/aquitaine/golf-chiberta/photos.htm#4