Austrian health resorts and the bitter waters of Hungary / by W. Fraser Rae.

  • Rae, W. Fraser (William Fraser), 1835-1905.
Date:
1888
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Credit: Austrian health resorts and the bitter waters of Hungary / by W. Fraser Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTKODUCTION. Much of the first chapter in this work appeared in an article on Carlsbad which was published in The Nineteenth Century for November, 1884, and in another in The Times for the 22nd of August, 1885. Having revisited Carlsbad since these articles ap- peared, I have embodied the results of my further experience in that chapter. It is so much changed, as well as enlarged, as to be new in form, though not in subject. In it, as in the chapters treating of Franzensbad and Marienbad, details are set forth concerning Goethe's visits which are not to be found in the late G. H. Lewes's Life of that extraordinary man. The particulars given with regard to Peter the Great's sojourn at Carlsbad and Tepitz are not to be met with in the recent and elaborate work on him from the pen of Mr. Eugene Schuyler. The chapter on Konigswart is new, and many other chapters are greatly altered and enlarged. I have revisited several of the places described since