Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    building, exclusively appropriated to bathing. It. contains 150 bath-cabinets, and twenty douchesj There is every requisite apparatus for administer¬ ing descending, lateral, and ascending douches.it The former are, however, almost exclusively in: request. The two establishments contain 340' bath-cabinets, and about 2,500 baths are given daily in the height of the season—the water being, previously cooled in large reservoirs in the upper portions of the buildings. Close to the establish¬ ment is the building for the preparation of the: products, and the preparing, for exportation, ot the Yichj’' water, the processes for which will, interest the visitor. That the use of the water atl a distance has gone on largely increasing may be: seen from the statement of exported bottles in the:; course of eight years. Thus, in 1853, the number:; was 388,150 ; in 1857, it was 709,300 ; in 1861,, it amounted to 1,228,650 ; and since that date the:; proportionate increase has been much larger—ini 1864 the number amounted to 2,000,000. There: are now special depots in Paris (Boulevard Mont¬ martre), London (Margaret-street), and elsewhere,, besides innumerable pharmacies where it may bei. obtained. The crystallised salts (prepared by. evaporation, and afterwards impregnated with gasi by means of a special apparatus), for making baths,, are also largely exported in rouleaux or flasks, asi are also the Yichy pastilles, which have an agree¬ able flavour. Yichy baths thus artificially made; with the salts may thus be obtained by persons i- who may be unable to go to Yichy, or who may