Excerpt from The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and ClimatesThe author in his Manual of Medical Treatment has dealt generally with the subject of Clinical or Practical Thera tics in his work on Food in Health and Disease c has treated M11) of the Thera tics of Food in the present volume he has taken for is subject The Therapeutics of Mineral Springs and Climates. These three works therefore cover a large portion of the wide field of practical Thera utics.The use and selection of baths and 'mates in the treatment of Disease are topics which have long engaged the attention of the author, indeed, the present work is founded on an earlier treatise of his on Climate and Health Resorts, which has been many years out of print. A long self-imposed winter holiday has afforded the author the leisure needed to revise, remodel. And, to a great extent, rewrite the former work so as to render it more systematic, complete, and hel ful as a guide to the selection, for invalids, of suitab e resorts for climatic or mineral-water treatment.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.