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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    by his late father, who held the appointment, under the Crown, of Superintendent of the Springs. The Magdaleine Spring is in the open air, and its waters run down the main street of the town. The Great Bath Springs (Grand Bain) are enclosed in an arched building of a size proportioned to their volume, some seven feet long by five feet wide, with a wooden partition down the centre, so that patients of both sexes may with decency and convenience bathe at the same time. The waters of the springs come bubbling in at the back of the bath and so fill it. The Caesar's Bath Spring, also known as the ' Petit Bain,' discharges into a single narrow bath, only large enough to accommodate one bather at a time, and the water comes up through the bottom of the bath. The temperature of the Caesar Spring is 37° Reaumur [= 115-25° Fahr.]; of the Great Bath Spring, 35° R. [= 110-75° F.]; and of the Magdaleine, 35° R. [= 110-75° F.]. Such was the very rude condition of things in 1768, and in which they appear to have remained until Ber- trand's time. Thus, M. Bouclant says of Bertrand:— It is necessary to come down to 1810 and 1823, the epoch in which the Researches of Dr. Michel Bertrand appeared, to be satisfied with the records of Mont Dore, and to read a work of depth, considered justly, even down to the present time, as the Medical Code of Mont Bore. M. Boudant thinks, however, that the clinical part of the work of this great hydrologist leaves much to be de- sired imder the head of Diagnosis and he says that the thermal therapeutics of Mont Bore are noxc much changed. M. Bertrand being deprived, like his predecessors, of the