. Annals of medical history. p onaccount of his colic, which also occasionedhim to abandon the desire he had formedof seeing Toul, Metz, Nancy, Jouinville,and St. Disier, towns scattered along thisroute, in order to get as soon as possibleto Plommieres. At Plombieres, Montaignedetected in one spring a taste of iron, in theother a taste of alum. The patrons of theplace drank sparingly of the waters andonly after a purge, but bathed two or threetimes a day. Some took their meals, werecupped and even scarified while in the traveler Ixeited (.oinimnl l)\ (>nl\Ijathing every otiier day
. Annals of medical history. p onaccount of his colic, which also occasionedhim to abandon the desire he had formedof seeing Toul, Metz, Nancy, Jouinville,and St. Disier, towns scattered along thisroute, in order to get as soon as possibleto Plommieres. At Plombieres, Montaignedetected in one spring a taste of iron, in theother a taste of alum. The patrons of theplace drank sparingly of the waters andonly after a purge, but bathed two or threetimes a day. Some took their meals, werecupped and even scarified while in the traveler Ixeited (.oinimnl l)\ (>nl\Ijathing every otiier day and at lour in tluafternoon and by staying in only an hour; but he drank copiously at seven in themorning. When he bathed he went withouthis supper. He notes that here people werecured of pimples and ulcers. In markedcontrast to the earlier practices in the bathhouses of central Europe, the proprietiesseem to have been rigidly observed. It wasreckoned indecent for men to bathe nakedor with less clothing than a little jacket,. Bronzinos portrait oi Bianca Capello in tiie PittJ Gallerj. or for women to wear less than a strictest rules were in force forbiddingall prostitutes and immodest women toenter the baths or to be found within fivehundred paces of the same under penaltyof a whipping at the four corners of thetown. Any householders receiving or con-cealing such undesirable patrons were liableto line and imprisonment. The same penalty will fall on those who shalluse any lascivious or immodest discourse to anyladies, or damsels, or other women and girls whomay be visiting the baths, or touch them in amanner unbecoming, or enter or quit the bathsin ribald fashion, contrary to public because by the boon of the baths afore- Montaigne and Medicine 281 named God and nature have afTorded us cureand relief in many cases, and because decentcleanliness and purity are necessary in orderto keep ofV the many contagions and infectionswhich might well engender in such
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