Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae.

  • Rae, W. Fraser (William Fraser), 1835-1905.
Date:
1889
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Credit: Austrian health resorts throughout the year / W. Fraser Rae. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Whilst several of the places described in this work are well known by name, others are not more familiar to the ordinary reader than the chief places of note in the heart of Central Africa or on the shores of Hudson Bay. For my own part, I was surprised to find in the Austrian Tyrol three Health Resorts of which the names had seldom appeared in an English book, yet which were quite as note- worthy as some of the most frequented watering-places in the Pyrenees, and the most fashionable spots on the Riviera. I have set forth their attractions with entire impartiality, yet not without a feeling of regret that these beautiful places will some day be over- crowded and will then be less enjoyable. Amongst the many mineral springs in Austria and Hungary there may be several quite as noteworthy as those which are described in this work. I have pur- posely chosen a few which, though in high repute for many years, and even for centuries, are not yet familiar to all the English and American seekers after pleasant and health-restoring places of sojourn. There was a time in the history of the oldest spring when its virtues were supposed to be almost miraculous. Ho one could tell why those who drank or bathed in it were healed of their infirmities. The mystery is not yet wholly removed; yet the knowledge of every spring has been increased an hundredfold. The analytic chemist can determine their contents, and the skilled physician now can form an approximate