The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker.

  • Baedeker, Karl.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The eastern Alps including the Bavarian highlands, Tyrol, Salzkammergut, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola, and Istria : handbook for travellers / by K. Baedeker. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    well fitted up, and contain mattresses or hay-beds, woollen cover- lets, a small cooking-stove, cooking utensils, plates, and glasses. A small sum, fixed by tariff, is charged for the accommodation afforded. When the traveller purposes spending the night in one of these huts and starting thence for the ascent, he should take a good supply of portable provisions with him (tinned meats, 'Erbs- wurst', beef-extract, condensed milk, tea and coffee, etc.). The public-spirited German-Austrian Alpine Club, by which most of these huts have been erected, now numbers upwards of 21,000 members, who belong to 160 different Sections, about two-thirds of these being German and the other third Austrian. The usual annual subscription is 10 m., which entitles the subscriber to 24 numbers of the 'Mittheilungen' and to one volume of the 'Zeitschrift', with maps and illustrations. The Austrian Tourist Club (founded in 1869; 14,000 members) and the Austrian Alpine Club (founded in 1878; 800 members) have also done good work in building refuge-huts, improving paths, etc. The accommodation afforded by the chalets of the Alpine herds- men is generally very inferior to that of the club-huts. Whatever poetry there may be theoretically in a bed of hay, the traveller will find that the cold night-air piercing abundant apertures, the jangl- ing of the cow-bells, and the grunting of the pigs are little con- ducive to refreshing slumber. Health. Tincture of arnica is a good remedy for bruises, and moreover has a bracing and invigorating effect if rubbed on the limbs after much fatigue; but it should never be applied to broken skin, as it is apt to produce erysipelas. Saturnine ointment or oxide of zinc ointment is beneficial in cases of inflammation of the skin, an inconvenience frequently caused by exposure to the glare of the sun on the snow. Cold cream, and, for the lips especially, vaseline or glycerine, are also recommended. ' For diarrhoea 15 drops of a mixture of equal parts of tincture of opium and aromatic tincture may be safely taken every two hours until relief is afforded. The homoeopathic tincture of camphor (5 drops on a lump of sugar every half-hour or so) is also a good re- medy. The homceopathic camphor-globules are convenient, but are more apt to lose their strength. V. Conveyances. Railway Travelling in Germany is less expensive than in most other parts of Europe, and tlie carriages are generally clean and comfortably fitted up; but in Austria the fares are somewhat higher and the carriages inferior. The second-class carriages, provided with spnng-seats, are often better than those of the first class in England Ihe first-class carriages, lined witli velvet, are compara- tively little used, but are recommended to the lover of scenery and ot fresh air, as he will be more likely to secure a seat next the win-