5 i2 THE POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY. 



each class there is a descriptive name. The French forests are the 

 best cared for in the world, and, whenever we are ready to cultivate 

 and preserve our own, we shall have the advantage of French experi- 

 ence in this important matter. 



The springs are fifteen in number, bearing names that come down, 

 in some instances, from the Roman era. The Bains des Benedictins, 

 des Capucins, des Dames, des Fleurs, are among the most used, flow- 

 ing as they do under the roof of a single establishment with four 

 others, the Bain gradue, the Grand Bain, the Bain des Cuvettes, and 

 the Ba in ferrugin eux. 



The establishment itself is a fine, old-fashioned building, very 

 spaciously and solidly built, more than a hundred years ago, in the 

 gray stone of the country, and much enlarged in the year 1853. 

 It stands in the middle of a park, shut in on either hand by rows of 

 magnificent oak and plane trees. The establishment lies like an island 

 in the inland sea of hills and meadows which make up this region in 

 the department of the Haute-Saone. They are the last northward-roll- 

 ing undulations of the Jura. 



I will not enumerate the douches, the psc??es, the shower and 

 plunge baths, nor the score of appliances which go to make up the 

 installation ox plant of this fine establishment. These appliances are, 

 indeed, much the same in all the great European watering-places, and 

 their elaborate complexity is a thing that interests one upon the spot, 

 rather than in the description of it. Taking all this balneological 

 battery, then, for granted, let me come to the description of the 

 waters themselves and of their virtues. 



They are thermal, ranging from 28 to 51'5 C. (82 to 125 Fahr.). 

 They are abundant in quantity, and in quality they are of two classes : 

 they are either predominantly saline or predominantly iron-manganese. 

 Chemically speaking, they are mild waters ; they are none the less very 

 effective therapeutically. Some of the mildest mineral waters, both 

 at home and abroad, are the most valuable. 



And for what classes of complaints are the springs of Luxeuil es- 

 pecially indicated ? There is no obscurity about the answer ; and it 

 will be an encouraging one to many sufferers. 



The waters of Luxeuil are especially adapted to anaemia and to 

 the complaints that arise from it ; and especially to the nervous, as 

 distinguished from the scrofulous, forms of anaemia. Need I say 

 more to indicate the point I am coming at ? The tired housekeeper 

 who is breaking down from work and worry, the jaded society-woman 

 whose rounds of fatiguing pleasures have impaired her nerves and her 

 temper nearly all, indeed, who represent our domestic types of worry, 

 exhaustion, and nervous debility, especially in women, or who suffer 

 from the still graver derangements of special functions which these in- 

 volve these are the preappointed visitors to Luxeuil. For such suf- 

 ferers its waters are, I will not say exactly a fountain of youth, for our 



