Long Life, Short Art

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and, judged by taste, it approaches closely to the character of intensely alkalized salt of Tartar. This salt is accompanied by no small quantity of calcareous, tufa-like earth, which floats in the quiet like cream of lime, a very light earth suitable for dentifrices for whitening teeth and drying ulcers. And these pertain especially to the common, furious fountain, called in the vernacular Brudel. Another fountain still gushes, the Mill original: "das Mühlbad", which differs from the former in that its heat is more remiss than in the furious one, and that it harbors an alkali salt joined with a certain medium, accustomed to be used for purging bodies in the manner of a cathartic salt dissolved in water.

Two miles from Vienna lies the town of Baden, where hot waters gush, much sulfurated and little nitrous, whose virtue and use the Magnificent Lord Maximilian Dietman explained most clearly in his inaugural dissertation. In Trentschin, a not ignoble city of Hungary, there are thermal springs rich in much sulfur and alum, powerfully strengthening the relaxed. In Buda, the metropolis of lower Hungary, springs related to those of Baden are celebrated. Not far from Vienna, in Deutschaltenburg, there exists a bath that is only tepid, consisting of sulfur, alum, and niter. This was explored with chemical rigor in the year 1634 by deputies of the Illustrious Medical Faculty. The village of Manersdorff, near Vienna, offers a bath, warmer in the wintertime and barely tepid in the summer, requiring heating at the time of use. The water enjoys a very light quality and saline-earthy, calcareous principles, the examination and use of which the Clariss Florian Prosky, of pious memory, left printed.

For those who desire to know more about thermal and acidulous springs, consult Jacob Wecker's Antidotarium, published in Basel in 1595, and the treatises of Friedrich Hoffmann on almost all the healing fountains of Germany.