The baths of France, central Germany, and Switzerland / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1854
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    Murray, and other guides to Switzerland. On Sundays, Schinzach is much resorted to by people from the adjacent country. Invalids both drink and bathe: drinkers assem- ble at the spring as early as five in the morning; those who bathe frequently remain four or five hours in the water, as at some other places in Switzerland. The spring has a temperature of 63° Fahrenheit, and is of the sulphurous-saline class ; sulphate and muriate of lime being the predomi- nating salts, but these are in small quantity. It is of the kind termed accidentally sulphurous, from the saline spring passing through decomposable animal and vegetable matter, and is said to be more sulphurous than any other in Switzerland or Gei-many. The baths are taken at first for a quarter of an hour twice a day, the time being afterwards gradually increased. They produce a degree of general excitation and considerable de- termination to the skin, which becomes red during the bath, and after a few baths an eruption appears in some cases. These waters have a high repu- tation for the relief of cutaneous and rheumatic affections, visceral obstruction, and glandular en- largement of a scrofulous origin.