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I VAN HOE BATHS, 



ASHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH. 



\ SHBY-DE-LA-ZOUCH possesses many advantages, both natural and acquired, 

 ^ in the extreme salubrity of its climate, in its finely sheltered situation with an open 

 outhern aspect, and in its position surrounded by a fertile district which abounds with excel- 

 jnt fuel, and yields an overflow of the strongest medicinal springs. These originally, issued 

 t openings in the surface ; and, for ages before Ashby acquired celebrity as a ^'^'atering Place, 

 hey were held in singular repute, and variously applied by multitudes of the sick and infirm, 

 esirous of profiting by their virtues. 



The Ivanhoe Baths were erected in the year 1826, and are not more admired for the beauty 

 f their structure, than for the convenience of their several arrangements. The building con- 

 ists of a centre and two wings. In the former is the spacious pump room, finished with rich 

 rchitectural decorations and ornamented with an elegant and lofty dome. In each of the 

 rings is a range of six Baths, with Douche, Vapour and Shower varieties ; and to every bath, 



distinct and comfortable dressing-room is attached. Those for Gentlemen, with a large one 

 )r swimming, and a Billiard-room, are in the north wing ; and, in the south, are those appro- 

 riated to the use of Ladies, with a suite of apartments for the accommodation of company. 

 ?he Baths are plentifully supplied with the Mineral Waters, which have their sources in an 

 djacent mine, upwards of one thousand feet in depth. 



The Ashby Medicinal Waters, naturally combine the Chlorides of Sodium, Magnesium and 

 /alcium, with the Bromides of Sodium and Magnesium, in extraordinary proportions ; and 

 hey contain a far greater quantity of Bromine than any water in the kingdom used for similar 

 urposes. They derive their peculiar qualities from being highly charged with Chlorine and 

 Jromine : this last is a newly discovered alkaline substance, having very energetic properties. 

 ?hese waters when judiciously employed according to rules, having reference to the Patient's 

 onstitutional, habitual and disordered conditions, operate with remarkable efficacy in attain- 

 ig the salutary purposes for which the Chlorides and Bromides are medicinally prescribed. 



These Waters furnish an excellent natural medicine which is powerfully tonic and deob- 

 truent ; and hence, their use is clearly indicated in all the diseases which are characterised b}' 

 ongestion or exhaustion, unaccompanied with fever or inflammation. As a Deobstruent, they 

 urify the blood and other fluids, and prevent or remove a tendency to swellings and dropsy. 

 18 a Tonicy they support the powers of digestion, and stengthen the whole animal economy. 

 n numerous well authenticated instances, the cures effected by them have been rapid, com- 

 lete and permanent ; and, as auxiliaries to other remedies, they act with decided benefit in 

 Ueviating or subduing the virulence of many inveterate maladies. In gout and rheumatism, 

 nder their manifold complications ; in disorders of the nervous functions, and the distressing 

 esults of palsy ; in cutaneous and scorbutic affections ; in glandular enlargements and scrofu- 

 )us tumours, inducing a liability to wasting and decline in the young ; in general debility and 

 ^digestion ; and, in tender constitutions pre-disposing to consumption, whether administered 



