The mineral waters and health resorts of Europe : treatment of chronic diseases by spas and climates, with hints as to the simultaneous employment of various physical and dietetic methods ; being a revised and enlarged edition of 'The spas and mineral waters of Europe' / by Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber.

Date:
1898
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Credit: The mineral waters and health resorts of Europe : treatment of chronic diseases by spas and climates, with hints as to the simultaneous employment of various physical and dietetic methods ; being a revised and enlarged edition of 'The spas and mineral waters of Europe' / by Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    per cent, chloride of sodium, 2 to 3 per mille chloride of calcium, some bicarbonate of iron, and much carbonic acid gas. The temperature of the waters is 82° to 95*5° F. Two of these springs rise in jets from the ground, and hence have been named respectively the Great and the Little Sprudel; they are rich in carbonic acid gas, one of them containing 1,340 cubic centimetres to the litre of water. Different kinds of baths are given: a simple salt bath, the carbonic acid gas having been allowed to partially or nearly completely escape [these baths may be given at different temperatures, and strengthened, if necessary, by the addition of ‘ Mutterlauge ’] ; an effervescent bath (the Sprudel bath) ; and an effervescent wave or surf bath (the ‘ Sprudelstrom ’ bath). The latter (a speciality of Nauheim) is the most stimulating; the Sprudel water used for it is conducted direct from the spring into the bath. There is now a separate bath-house for the simple salt baths. Besides the baths there are rooms for inhal- ing the waters and ‘ Gradirhauser,’ by which the patients can sit, as at Kreuznach, Kissingen, Reichenhall, &c. A great many different affections can be treated at Nauheim. Scrofulous and rachitic children, conva- lescents, patients with functional nervous disorders, those with chronic catarrhal affections of the respiratory and alimentary tracts are treated here as at other common salt water spas. In neuralgic affections the hotter baths are useful. The gynecological affections likely to be benefited by salt baths can of course be treated at Nauheim. Bronchitic patients may inhale the waters or sit by the ‘ Gradirhauser.’ In disorders of the digestive system, drinking the water of the Karls-Brunnen plays a similar part to drinking that of the Elisabethen-Brunnen, in Homburg. When the undiluted water of the Kur-Brunnen is likely to induce a catarrh of the bowels, it may be diluted, preferably with the Ludwigs-Brunnen, according to