Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae.

  • Rae, W. Fraser (William Fraser), 1835-1905.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    salient and more interesting fads from the second edition. Goethe suffered in early life from an internal malady, and it was with a view to obtain relief that, for the first time, he journeyed to Carlsbad in 1785 ; afterwards he visited it many times at intervals for the sake of his health. Writing to Frau Von Stein after his arrival in 1785, he said that the waters which he drank and in which he bathed suited him very well, that being thrown into close contact with his fellows exercised a good effect on him, having helped to ^^rub off the rust’’ which had accumulated ■ owing to his life of seclusion, and that all things had contributed, particularly the ladies, to render his stay interesting and beneficial. Returning the following year, he then occupied himself with preparing an edition of his works for the press. His friend Riemer wrote that Carlsbad had made a new man of him. Goethe informed the Duke of Saxe-Weimar that his health had been greatly improved by taking the waters. On the third of September, 1786, he left Carlsbad in good health and spirits to pay his long contemplated visit to Italy. He wrote that he stole away very early in the morning, and without bidding his friends good- bye, in order that they might not tempt him to pro- long his sojourn. He did not return for nine years*