^96 Pr 'Gosse m tlie Baths of St Filippo^ and the formation 
tuti Principls gloriam, hoc cgregi^ medelae monumentum posteris 
excitavit, A. D. 1635.’’ At present two small rooms are the only 
places in which the water is employed in the form of baths, and 
of douches or in stream. The price of the baths is moder^e, 
and the administration of the douches does not increase the 
expense?. The number of patients is not so great as at the 
Bagni di Vignone, but seems increasing, from the reputation the 
water possesses in rheumatic and cutaneous affections, and in 
some species of tumours and ulcers. The water of the warm 
springs is not administered internally ; the Acqua Santa being 
preferred for that purpose, as an excellent solvent in calculous 
diseases. The peasants also use the cavities, in which the sul- 
phur sublimes, as vapour baths, and speak highly of their effi- 
cacy. I had no opportunity of witnessing the application of the 
baths, nor of conversing with any physician about them ; but if I- 
may judge by their temperature, they must possess the same ad- 
vantages as other hot springs in Italy, of which the effects have 
been well described, — as those* of the Baths of Lucca by Trances- 
chi, and of the Bagni di Pisa by Santi. Their activity must even 
be increased or modified by the presence of carbonic and sulphuric 
acids, of sulphur, and the earthy salts. Precise observations on 
their influence are therefore very desirable, and might give 
rise to some new views on the subject of baths, now so much in- 
vestigated. 
San Filippo is not only interesting in a geological and medi- 
cal view ; it deserves to be visited by artists on account of a ma- 
nufactory of medallions in basso relievo, which is there carried 
on. It having been observed that bodies exposed to a current 
of the spring soon became encrusted with a hard and white 
stony layer, it occurred first to a Mr Vegni to employ this pro- 
perty of the spring to multiply impressions of medals, by esta- 
blishing a manufactory for the purpose. In this enterprize he 
was encouraged by the Grand Duke Leopold, the brother, and 
at that period the imitator, of the immortal Emperor Joseph II. 
who visited the place, and gave every aid to M. Vegni. Some 
time after, an engraver in wood, M. Pagliari, a native of Genoa, 
visiting San Filippo on his return from Borne, where he had 
been educated, was engaged to remain there to superintend the 
establishment. He succeeded so well, that M. Vegni, at his 
