The Spas of GermanyColburn, 1838 - 516 pages |
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The Spas of Germany: In Two Volumes, Volume 2 Augustus Bozzi Granville Affichage du livre entier - 1837 |
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acid gas alluded appearance ascending Baden Baden-Baden baths Bavaria beautiful Bocklet Bohemian Bruckenau building called Calw carbonic acid Carlsbad celebrated centre chalybeate character chaussée contains course cubic cure degree dinner disease disorders distance drinking edifice effect Egra English equally erected establishment Fahrenheit feet florins forest four Frankfort Franzensbad gallery Gastein Germany Glyptothek half heat hills hour hundred invalids Kissingen Kreutzbrunnen kreutzers lady latter lofty Marienbad miles mineral springs mineral waters morning mountain Munich Nassau natural o'clock object Pandur passed patients physician pint present Prince principal produce promenade Pullna quantity Ragozi readers respecting river road rock royal saline Salle salt Saltzburg Schlangenbad Schwalbach season side situated spot Sprudel strangers Stuttgardt table d'hôte taste Taunus temperature tion Tirschenreuth Toeplitz town traveller valley village visiters walk warm Wiesbaden Wildbad Würtemberg
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Page 366 - This is rendered probable by the fact that the bark of the loot frequently contains substances which are not to be met with in any other part of the plant.
Page xxxv - Haste away, and make the trial by any means. Do not waste your life and your purse in swallowing endless drugs, and ringing the changes of remedies and doctors, pent up in a hot house in London during the summer months ; or in being lifted in and out of the carriage, the prey of some chronic and insidious disorder, which baffles your vigilant physician's skill ; or in being sent from Brighton to Tunbridge, and from thence to Leamington or Cheltenham, merely to return again to Brighton or London,...
Page 149 - DUKE'S PALACE. [Enter DUKE, CURIO, LORDS; MUSICIANS attending.] DUKE. If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken and so die.— That strain again;— it had a dying fall; O, it came o'er my ear like the sweet south, That breathes upon a bank of violets, Stealing and giving odour.— Enough; no more; 'Tis not so sweet now as it was before.
Page 17 - The water is perfectly clear, bu a faint animal smell, a taste somewhat saltish, and when drunk as it Issues from the spring, approaching to that of weak broth.
Page xxxii - Persons who are inclined to perspire and are liable either to catch cold, or to be exhausted from that circumstance, •will find the mild spring or autumn months preferable. In the spring, the crisis is brought about more quickly. Sometimes the case requires two courses in a year. In that case the first begins in May, and the second in August, with an interval of a month or six weeks. The best time for drinking the waters is early in the morning. The heat is then not so oppressive, and the body...
Page 60 - J of Fahrenheit. But I found the temperature warmer than that, whenever, with my hand, I dug into the bed of sand, as far down as the rock, and disengaged myriads of bubbles of heated air, which imparted to the skin a satiny softness not to be observed in the effects of ordinary warm baths.
Page 18 - ... grs.) ; the remainder consists of a small portion of magnesia and of traces of iron, with about half a cubic inch of carbonic-acid gas in addition.
Page 348 - Petersburg contains the most copious and detailed description of the gigantic edifices of this extraordinary city, which has hitherto been laid before the public/
Page 58 - After descending a few steps from the dressing-room into the bath-room, I walked over the warm, soft sand to the farthest end of the bath, and I lay myself down upon it, near the principal spring, resting my head on a clean wooden pillow. The soothing effect of the water as it came over me, up to the throat, transparent like the brightest gem or aqua-marine, soft, genially warm, and gently murmuring, I shall never forget.
Page 222 - ... enthusiasm. The hour of rising in Carlsbad is about the hour when a London fashionable thinks of going to bed after a night at Almack's. He made his way to the fountain at dawn, found it out at once by the curling vapours which hovered over its colonnaded temple, and felt that all description was in vain. The sudden view of the violent, lofty, constant, and prodigal up-pourings of hot water out of the bowels of the earth, foaming in the midst of its clouds of vapour, within 45° of the boiling...