. The watering places and mineral springs of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; with notes on climatic resorts and consumption, sanitariums, peat, mud, and sand baths, whey and grape cures, &c. A popular medical guide. intermediatestations—Clothing—Diet of consumptives—Sight-see-ing— Occupation—Madeira— Cairo—Palermo—Cata- Xll CONTENTS. nia—Ajaccio — Hyeres—Cannes—Nice—Mentone—San Remo—Rome—Naples—Venice—Meran—Bozen— Gries—Arco—Montreux—Vevey—Clarens — Ele-vated regions—Sanitariums—Gorbersdorf—Davos—Summer resorts—Seaside resorts—Ostend—Scheve-ningen—Norderney—Borkum—Sylt—Heligoland . 253 CHAP
. The watering places and mineral springs of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; with notes on climatic resorts and consumption, sanitariums, peat, mud, and sand baths, whey and grape cures, &c. A popular medical guide. intermediatestations—Clothing—Diet of consumptives—Sight-see-ing— Occupation—Madeira— Cairo—Palermo—Cata- Xll CONTENTS. nia—Ajaccio — Hyeres—Cannes—Nice—Mentone—San Remo—Rome—Naples—Venice—Meran—Bozen— Gries—Arco—Montreux—Vevey—Clarens — Ele-vated regions—Sanitariums—Gorbersdorf—Davos—Summer resorts—Seaside resorts—Ostend—Scheve-ningen—Norderney—Borkum—Sylt—Heligoland . 253 CHAPTER II. MISCELLANEOUS CURES. Peat, mud, sand, pine-needle, and herb baths—Milk, whey,kumys, and grape cures—Herb juices—Hydropathictreatment 286 CHAPTER III. THERAPEUTICAL RECAPITULATION. Diseases of the digestive and respiratory organs ; of theurinary>and uterine system ; of the skin ; and of thena^ous system—Constitutional diseases . . 301 APPENDIX. Comparative Tables of the principal mineral constituents of the mineral waters 318 Coin Table 326 Index of Watering Places and Health-Resorts . 327General Index . : 329 yun, \ J. Sampson Low, Searle, and Rivm|ton. Nev fYork: I- .< !»? THE nhfm$ paws aitir gpwral Apings OF GERMANY, AUSTRIA, AND SWITZERLAND. PART I. GENERAL REMARKS ON WATERING PLACESAND THE USE OF MINERAL WATERS. Mens sana in corpore sano. CHAPTER I. ON THE BENEFIT OF VISITING WATERING PLACES. The English and Americans are travelling is the old restless spirit of wandering which inspiresthem—the same spirit which impelled the Teutonictribes to overrun the Roman Empire, and which oncedrove the Anglo-Saxons from their seat in thenorthern part of Germany to England, and the Englishto America and all the other portions of the spirit is revived every spring, when natureawakens, and inspires all living beings with freshenergy. It is then that
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