Pilgrimages to the Spas In Pursuit of Health and Recreation, by James Johnson, M.D

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Author

Johnson, James, 1777-1845

Title

Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation With an inquiry into the comparative merits of different mineral waters: the maladies to which they are applicable, and those in which they are injurious

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Produced by Susan Skinner, K Nordquist and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

RA: Medicine: Public aspects of medicine

Subject

Balneology

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 60104

Release Date

August 15, 2019

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.CONTENTS. — PILGRIMAGES TO THE SPAS.
4. 4.(First Pilgrimage.) — THE STEAMER. — THE SEA. — ROTTERDAM. — THE HAGUE. — HAERLEM. — AMSTERDAM. — BATAVIAN CHARACTERISTICS. — COLOGNE. — THE RHINE. — DRACHENFELS. — LEGEND OF THE DRACHENFELS. ( No. 1. ) — ROLAND AND HILDEGUND, OR THE FATAL AFFIANCE. ( Legend the Second. ) — THE LAST NUNS OF NONNENWERTH. ( Legend the Third. ) — TREUENFELS; OR, THE ROCK OF FIDELITY. ( Legend the Fourth. ) — COBLENTZ. — EHRENBREITSTEIN. — COBLENTZ TO MAYENCE. — STOLZENFELS. — THE BROTHERS; OR, LIEBENSTEIN AND STERNFELS. “The course of true love never did run smooth.” ( Legend the Fifth. ) — LURLEY, OR THE ECHO. ( Legend the Sixth. ) — SCHOMBERG. — THE SEVEN SISTERS; OR, THE FATE OF COQUETTES. ( Legend the Seventh. ) — PFALZ. — TEMPTATION, OR THE HALL OF A HUNDRED MIRRORS. ( Legend the Eighth. ) — THE DEVIL’S LADDER. RUTHELM AND GARLINDA, OR LOVE REWARDED AND INHOSPITALITY PUNISHED. “Omnia vincit amor.” ( Legend the Ninth. ) — THE BRIDAL OF RHEINSTEIN; OR, THE RUNAWAY MARRIAGE. ( Legend the Tenth. ) — THE RAT OR MOUSE-TOWER. ( Legend the Eleventh. ) — CHANGE OF SCENE. — WISBADEN. — Group of Disorders in which the Waters, either Internal or External, or both, are likely to be useful. — COUNTER-INDICATIONS. — THE ADLER, OR EAGLE BATH. — SCHLANGENBAD. — TABLE-D’HÔTE. — SCHWALBACH. — COUNTER-INDICATIONS. — THE BATHS. — GERMAN SOCIETY AND MANNERS. — HEIDELBERG. — BADEN-BADEN. — LINES Written at the Vieux Chateau , August, 1834. — WILDBAD, OR THE ELYSIAN FOUNTAIN OF THE BLACK FOREST. — SCHWEIN-GENERAL. — Disorders for which the Waters of Wildbad are chiefly used. — SCHAFFHAUSE. — RHINEFALLS. — LAKE OF WALLENSTADT. — BATHS OF PFEFFERS. — Waters of Pfeffers. — Hydropathy, Hydro-sudo-pathy—or Hydrotherapeia.
5. 5.(Second Pilgrimage.) — CHEMIN DE MER—CHEMIN DE FER. — ANTWERP ROUTE. — LIEGE. — CHAUDE FONTAINE. — SPA. — POUHON. — MEDICINAL AGENCY. — REGIMEN. — AIX-LA-CHAPELLE. — Borcette. — Aix-la-Chapelle — EMS. — COUNTERINDICATIONS. — POINT OF SATURATION, OR CRISIS. — GENERAL RULES FOR TAKING THE WATERS AND BATHS. — FRANKFORT. — KISSENGEN. — MEDICINAL EFFECTS AND PROPERTIES OF THE KISSENGEN WATERS. — PHYSICAL EFFECTS AND MEDICINAL PROPERTIES OF THE DIFFERENT SPRINGS. — THE BATHS. — THE BATHS. — ORDER OF THE DAY. — BOCKLET. — BRUCKENAU. — FRANZENSBAD. — I. FRANZENSQUELLE, OR BRUNN. — II. THE SALZQUELLE. — III. THE COLD SPRUDEL. — IV. LOUISENBRUNN. — GAS BATHS. — MUD BATHS. — Extract of a Letter from Mr. Spitta to Dr. Johnson. — MARIENBAD. — I. THE KREUZBRUNN. — II. FERDINANDSBRUNN. — III. CAROLINENBRUNN AND AMBROSIUSBRUNN. — THE BATHS. — PHYSICAL AND PHYSIOLOGICAL EFFECTS OF THE BATHS. — MUD-BATHS. — GAS-BATHS. — CARLSBAD. — THE CARLSBAD STURM, OR CRISIS. — VALETUDINARIUM. — GASTEIN, commonly called WILDBAD GASTEIN. — PRAGUE. — TEPLITZ. [79] — TOPOGRAPHY. — Translation of a Note received from Dr. Richter, of Teplitz, (by Mr. Spitta) dated 18th Sept. 1840. — Extract of a Paper of Mr. Spitta’s on the Waters of Püllna, &c. — SAIDSCHITZ. — SEDLITZ. — PÜLLNA, — THE ELBE—SAXON SWITZERLAND. TEPLITZ TO TETCHEN. — CULM. — TETCHEN. — KŒNIGSTEIN. — THE BASTEI. — ELBE to DRESDEN. — PILLNITZ. — DRESDEN. — THE GREEN VAULTS. — RUSTKAMMER. — DRESDEN to LEIPZIG. — LEIPZIG. — RETROSPECTIVE VIEW FROM THE TOWER OF THE OBSERVATORY. — MAGDEBURG to HAMBURG. — HAMBURG. — CHARACTERISTIC TRAITS OF GERMANY AND THE GERMANS.
6. 6.FOOTNOTES

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