The principal baths of Germany, France, and Switzerland : considered with reference to their remedial efficacy in chronic disease. 1st vol. Baths of Germany / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1863
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Credit: The principal baths of Germany, France, and Switzerland : considered with reference to their remedial efficacy in chronic disease. 1st vol. Baths of Germany / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. This work lias been for some time out of print, and the portion relating to the German Baths can only be reproduced at present. In the meantime, I have published a separate notice of Vichy, the French bath most frequented by English visitors, and notices of the Pyrenean baths will be found in the “ South of France.” The present edition contains much additional information, brought up to the present time, and deduced partly from my own observation—made in the course of renewed visits to the principal localities specified—and from publications of a recent date, emanating from local practitioners, or other native writers, whose opinions, when quoted, are generally given in their own words ; and I have preferred restricting myself to giving a fuller account of the resources and peculiarities of the most frequented and efficient baths with which I am acquainted, than unnecessarily en- larging the work by mere compilation, by in- cluding descriptions of many others, which, from
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