The Carlsbad treatment for tropical ailments and how to carry it out in India / by Louis Tarleton Young.

  • Young, Louis Tarleton, 1859-1904.
Date:
1894
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Carlsbad treatment for tropical ailments and how to carry it out in India / by Louis Tarleton Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    SPERRGELD. places, of which Carlsbad is the chief in Austria, are ruled by the physicians, and they treat brother medicos from all parts of the world really as guests in the kindest manner. Doctors pay no ‘kurtaxe’ and get baths in the Kurhaus free. Excellent Reading Rooms both for ladies and gentlemen, supplied with the best daily and weekly papers of all Europe and America, are open during the entire season in the Kurhaus. The moderate fee of 2 gulden monthly obtains for the kurgast the entree of these rooms. Letters can be forwarded to the poste restante, Carlsbad, until you have a fixed address. Sperrgeld.—An ancient custom survives in the Austrian dominions which obliges each person enter- ing a house after lo P.M. to pay the Hausmeister or hall-porter who opens the door, 30 kreutzers. The kurgast v^ill have to pay this if he comes home late.
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