The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1876
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    temperature is 98°, and it differs from the Gurgitello princi- pally in strength. Its chief use is in dyspepsia and chronic gastro-intestinal derangements, and also in some uterine affections. The Acqua di Bagno Fresco is an alkaline water, said to possess the property of rendering the skin white and soft, and therefore specially resorted to by the Neapolitan fair, as well as by those suffering from certain chronic skin diseases, in which a stimulating remedy is required. The Stufe, or natural vapour baths, of Castiglione, in the mound of lava close to Lacco, are heated by steam, rising through crevices, in two small chambers, in the mass of lava. The temperature of the steam baths is 130°, and they are employed in the treatment of chronic rheumatism, gout, and rheumatic-arthritis of long standing. They are also sometimes prescribed in obstinate skin diseases. As, how- ever, these baths are powerful stimulants and excitants, they should on no account be used in any case without the advice of a local physician. My task ends here. I have now accompanied my reader through the principal Southern Health Resorts and Foreign Spas; and, as I trust, aided the valetudinarian traveller in pursuit of health, with the counsel of his medical adviser, to select the climate or mineral water most suitable for his condition.