On chronic skin diseases treated by the waters of Aix-la-Chapelle / by Dr. Schumacher, Jr.

  • Schumacher, Carl.
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[1882]
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    ON CHRONIC SKIN DISEASES TREATED BY THE WATERS OF AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. By De. SCHUMACHER, Jr., RESIDENT PHYSICIAN, AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. THE hot springs at Aix-la-Chapelle were already in use for bathing purposes in the time of the Romans. It was most probably the celebrated Sixth Legion, which had won the honorable title of “ Legio victria ” by its glorious victories in Spain, that first erected splendid bathing-houses at our springs, known to the oldest authorities as “Aquae,” or “ healing waters.” The remains of these baths, built between 69 and 120 A.D., were dug out in 1878. Many ornaments and articles of feminine toilet were found in the canals and bath-rooms, and have, together with other curiosities, been placed in the museum of this city. The newly discovered foundations are accessible to all who are interested in these relics of a by-gone age.1 From Germany the Sixth Legion went to Britain, and most probably erected the large building for warm baths at . Bath—at the Aquae Solis,—the foundations of which were laid bare in the last century. The Roman buildings at Aix-la-Chapelle were destroyed by the invading barbarians, whose countless hordes of war¬ riors carried death and desolation to the very walls of the 1 “Ruins of the Roman Baths at Aix-la-Chapelle,” Dr. Lersch, 1878. Reprinted from the Archives of Dermatology, Vol. viii, No. 3, July, 1882.