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Tempted by the Reports which the latter published 

 in 1816, I established, in 1817, at Vienna, fumigating 

 rooms, and sent a great number of my improved 

 boxes to medical practitioners in most countries of 

 Europe , and even two to London , for public and 

 private establishments. The good effects of those 

 fumigations, the perfection of the apparatus, sug- 

 gested soon the idea of applying medically the steam 

 of various hot wells. Carlsbad was one of them, 

 and no where perhaps could one dispose of more 

 copious vapours. On my arrival there, in Mai 1826, 

 I found the walls of a new building erected for that 

 purpose, above the source of Hygiaea. Knowing the 

 experience I had acquired at Vienna in that branch 

 of medical practice, my advice was requested by 

 Government for the construction of the necessary 

 boxes, and other furnitures. The Vienna apparatus 

 were adopted, with the modifications which a vapour 

 so different from the sulfureous fluid required 5 six 

 of them and twelve small rooms compose the esta- 

 blishment. Some additions, but no corrections, have 

 since taken place. The partial application of a steam- 

 douche; the possibility of taking a whole bath or a 

 half- bath j of applying partially the vapour to the 

 superior or to the lower extremities, to the breast 

 and to the ears , have given to the establishment a 

 high degree of perfection, and met with general 

 approbation. 



We are hitherto rather deficient in the application 

 of the water -douche, but the improvement of that 



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