THE DOCTOR'S BATH ESTABLISHMENT. 239 
long frame-building, divided into numerous small 
rooms, all opening on a kind of platform that 
extended the entire length of the building; 
and sheltered overhead by a rough kind of 
verandah. A camp-bed, wash-basin, and stool 
constituted the furniture of each apartment. 
Four sickly-looking men were walking feebly 
up and down the platform. These, the Doctor 
assured me, were giants now as compared to 
what they had been ere they stumbled on the 
Tuscan Springs and his water-cure. 
The springs are about ten in number, but not 
all alike. In some of them, the water rises at 
a temperature near to boiling, and densely im- 
pregnated with sulphuretted hydrogen-gas, per- 
fectly poisoning the air with a most insufferable 
stench. In others, again, the waters bubble up 
tepid, but bitter and saline. From two of them, 
that widen into pools, gas (I imagine some com- 
pound of hydrogen) rises constantly to the sur- 
face; and when I applied a match to the water, a 
sudden flash lighted up the pool for a second or 
two, and this could be repeated at intervals of 
three or four minutes. This gas, by a simple 
contrivance, is collected and conveyed into a 
small shanty, dignified with the name of ‘Steam 
Bath,’ the gas being used to heat the water 
