Hints for invalids about to visit Naples : being a sketch of the medical topography of that city. Also an account of the mineral waters of the Bay of Naples : with analyses of the most important of them, derived from authentic sources / by J.C. Cox.

Date:
1841
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Credit: Hints for invalids about to visit Naples : being a sketch of the medical topography of that city. Also an account of the mineral waters of the Bay of Naples : with analyses of the most important of them, derived from authentic sources / by J.C. Cox. 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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    ]33 is caused from the boiling of water below the surface, by which the vapor is formed. STUFE DI CASTIGLIONE. These are situated near the springs of Castiglione. There are two rooms, an upper and a lower one, both in wretched order. The vapor given out in the lower room is at a temperature of 120° Faht., and that in the upper room of 103°. A very trifling expense would be sufficient to make these stufe sufficiently commodious for all the purposes for which they are required. STUFE DI TESTACCIO. These are situated near a place of that name, on the south side of the island ; it is a pretty, quiet, picturesque village, with some tolerable houses, rendering it a delightful retreat for those who seek retirement. Between Testaccio and Marontes are the stufe which have this peculiarity, that they are not vapor, but hot air baths. We have thus the means of obtaining baths of vapor or of hot air, as may be best adapted to the case of the patient. A little moist rag or paper applied to the mouth of the tube is quickly dried; and the temperature of the hottest of the apertures amounts sometimes to 188° of Faht., that of the others being from 110° to 120°.* * lu strange contrast to these fumaroles or stufe, there is found in the neighbourhood of Casamicciola a cavern, from K 3