Bad Homburg and its resources : for the use of English visitors especially / by Dr Hoeber.

  • Hoeber, Dr.
Date:
1875
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Credit: Bad Homburg and its resources : for the use of English visitors especially / by Dr Hoeber. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    The taths - the new Parkhad a most excellent re- medial agent — the grosse Badhaus plain mi- neral baths — the additional use of medical sub- stances - motherlye pineneedle extract indica- tions and counterindications for the separate classes of baths — time of the day most suitable for ba- thing — cautions to be observed. —ShSX— THE BATHS. Till very lately, many foreign physicians used to blame, and with some reason our bathing institutions. This reproach is no longer justified, since we posess in the Park Bad an establishment which entirely answers all exigencies. This new bathing house was erected in 1871 in the immediate vicinity of the wells, the water of the Kaiser and Ludwigbrunneu is introduced into it in closed tubes, so that it passes into the bath by its own pressure and has no communication with the air. It is then heated by passing steam between the double walls of the bath which raises the water to the designed temperature. This manner of preparing the bath is so perfect that only a very insignificant quantity of the carbonic acid and the iron is lost. As soon as the water gets warm it begins to effer- vesce, and this continues as long as the water is warm, so that the skin of the bather is covered with thousands of bubbles of carbonic acid, which produce a most agreeable sensation. At the same time the iron walls keep up the tem- perature so well, that the bath loses not quite a degree