Austrian health resorts and the bitter waters of Hungary / by W. Fraser Rae.

Rae, W. Fraser (William Fraser), 1835-1905.

Date:: 1888

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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Austrian health resorts and the bitter waters of Hungary / by W. Fraser Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I.—CARLSBAD 1 Fables about the Sprudel 3 Notable Visitors 5 Heroic Treatment ....... 7 The Preliminary Ordeal . . . . . 9 A Bold Innovator ....... 11 Nature of the Treatment ...... 13 The Daily Round 15 What to Eat and Drink 17 Medical Vampires 19 Carry an Umbrella . . . . . .21 Goethe at Carlsbad . . . . . 23 His Fourth Visit 25 Public Gaming Tables 27 An Eccentric Duke ....... 29 A Pleasant Surprise 31 Peter the Great 33 An Imperial Mason ....... 35 Leibnitz and the Czar 37 A *