On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

Date:
1881
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Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    THE MONT nOKE CURE AND fountains of the heavens may be exhausted; but the picture of Mont Dore, as painted in my memory, is like one of Turner's ' Eain—Storm—Wind.' This is what I found from the day of my first bathe until I shook off, not the dust, but the mud from my feet at the door of Chabaury aine'. . . . Notwithstanding storm and rain, mud and gloom, I shall be ever grateful to Mont Dore, and intend to return there. I have been vapoured, boiled, and douched into a different being. It is a new life for me to breathe without pain. . . . You have just time to make the cure. Lay in an ample supply of woollens, flannels, goloshes, macin- toshes, and strong shoes. . . My discipline for the next three weeks was soon written down. I was to commence at 6.30 with a glass of mineral water; at 7 to enter the salle craspiration, and remain until 8, then return to bed again; after an hour of the warmed bed, a hot foot-bath, and another glass of water before break- fast ; at 2 a warm bath with the douche; at 5 o'clock two more glasses of arsenic and sulphur. [See Table II.] So my day would be well occupied. No sooner had the doctor departed than three strong-limbed damsels, laden with flannels of various colours and wooden sabots, rushed into the room, and after a conflict of gesticulations I was made to understand that for the aspiration it was essential to have a flannel costume, and to wear these heavy wooden shoes. I selected the least remarkable of the variegated assortment, and was at last left in peace. . . . As the first visitors engage the baths at the most convenient hour, so the last have to commence as early as five o'clock, or even eai'lier when the place is very fuU. ... I placed myself entirely in the hands of the most admirable specimen of a French maid, Mdlle.