Royat (Les Bains) in Auvergne : its mineral waters and climate / by G.H. Brandt.

Date:
1883
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Credit: Royat (Les Bains) in Auvergne : its mineral waters and climate / by G.H. Brandt. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    well soaked in the warm mineral water (Eugenie spring) and covering it with a piece of gutta perclia sheeting—spougio piline answers the pur- pose well. I saw one patient who, on arriving at Royat, could not walk for more than ten minutes without considerable pain. After his 25th bath, he walked sis miles with the greatest ease. His feet and ankles were reduced in size, and were quite supple in their movements. Cases of bronchial catarrh, accompanied or not by asthma, also derive considerable benefit by the aspiration of mineralised steam, these inhalations are carried out in a room in the shape of an am- phitheatre, surrounded by benches placed in rows one above the other up to near the ceiling, in the centre of the room. A metal tube like the funnel of a steamer, rises above the ground for about seven or eight feet, throwing out clouds of mineralised steam; the patient sits down, inhal- ing from a quarter of an hour to an hour accord- ing as the case may be; and of course the higher he is placed, the more steam he gets; the patient during this process is deprived of his coat, waistcoat, and trousers, and is wrapped up in
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