A\ c IB:\T v*i> PRESENT none: 



OF 



USING THE WATERS, AND CHOICE 

 OF THE SEASON. 



THE very name given to the town by its founder, 

 Charles IV, proves enough that Carls6a<f acquired its 

 first renown as a bathing establishment. Lobkowitz, 

 singing the virtues of our springs, speaks of bathing, 

 not of drinking: 



Qitii(]ni* in, line lymftlia frag He s itnnierserit artus. 



Wenzel Payer tells us, in 1521, that drinking 

 was rare , and bathing usual : Et quia hucusque 

 (aqua) non fuit in frequenti usu quoad potum , sed 

 mayiis ad abluendum. Carlsbad being formerly re- 

 commanded to sterile women, he says that the water 

 would prove useful to a greater number, if, instead 

 of bathing, they would drink: Quod autem multae 

 ntulieres in hoc casu (sterilitas) redeunt sine leva- 

 mine, causa est mulus ordo , quia balnefint in balneo 



