reservative_ will be found of essential service taken every
night before drinking the morning waters.

R,

Ext: Col: Co:

Pil: Rhei: Co: a a gr. XL

Pil: Hydrarg: -- gr. X

Ol: Caryoph: -- gr. VI

ft. pil: XX capt. 1 vel: ij hora somni.

It is however absolutely necessary on patients arriving at any spa, to
consult the resident Physician.

With respect to the use of mineral waters in general, we consider them
as most important, and extremely beneficial in the treatment of disease;
some of the good effects of all of them however, must be allowed to
proceed from change of air and scene; relaxation from business,
amusement, temperance, and regular hours, and under these circumstances
the drinking the waters at the springs possesses advantages which cannot
be obtained from artificial waters, however excellent the imitations may
be, nor even from the natural water, when bottled and conveyed to a
distance from the springs.

SPAS

OF

CENTRAL FRANCE.

THERMAL SALINE WATERS,

PLOMBIERES.

_Plombiers_, a small town in the department of Vosges, twenty-four
leagues from Nancy, is situated between mountains in a deep narrow
valley watered by the Augrome.

According to a careful analysis made by M. Vauquelin, these waters
contain Subcarbonate of Soda, Sulphate of Soda, Chloride of Sodium,
Subcarbonate of Lime, and Silex. He affirms that they also contain an
animal matter greatly resembling gelatine, which performs an important
part in their action upon the animal economy; to this ingredient he
attributes the fetid odour which occasionally arises from the waters.

The thermal waters of Plombieres, are classed as follows:--1st The
_Bain des Dames_; having a heat of 126 deg. Fahr 2nd--The _Source du
Chene_, or _du Crucifix_; this is the only one of the waters not used
for bathing, but solely for drinking. 3d--The _source du Grand-Bain_
or _du milieu_, the temperature of the former is 130 deg.: and of the latter
142 deg. Fah. The _Grand Bain_ is called the _Bain des pauvres_.
4th--The _Bain-tempere_, which is supplied by two sources; one at
90 deg. and the other at 113 deg. Fah. 5th--The _Petit-Bain_ or _Capucins_,
is 113 deg. Fah. Its basin is divided into two parts, the temperature of the
water there being 95 deg. to 97 deg. Fah. 6th--The _Bain-Neuf_ or _Royal_,
has a square basin which receives the waters from a source formerly
called _l'enfer_, and had o