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Credit: Carlsbad : a medico-practical guide / by Emil Kleen. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![temperature and duration in ordinary water. [The carbonate of soda makes it more effective as a cleansing bath; the chloride of sodium may form a contra-indication against the mineral bath in some cases of skin-diseases; the effects of the sulphate of soda have, if they exist for the bath, never been demonstrated; the free carbonic acid is present in too small a quantity to be of any importance what- ever].—The mud-baths have without doubt their chief, (and a very great,) importance in promoting the resorption of the products of acute or chronic inflammations, as exudations in and around the joints, in the pelvis or abdominal cavity, rheu- matic infiltrations in the muscles, etc.; they ought in most of these cases to be combined with (the still more effective) massage.—The Russian steam- and the Turkish hot-air bath have both a very strong effect on perspiration and on the metamor- phosis of substances, but should be used only by persons who are, at least, fairly strong and healthy. —Every one knows the invigorating influence and the great importance which a cold-water-cure has in nervous disorders of many kinds and especially in that trouble (now so prevalent) which is called neurasthenia, or (with a somewhat free transla- tion) general nervousness.—The same beneficial influence is ascribed to electric baths.—The acidu- lous bath is also considered, by virtue of the mil- lions of little bubbles of free carbonic acid and their action upon the skin, to have a bracing or stimulating effect.—The baths in chalybeate waters](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21134923_0039.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
