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Page i - A THREE WEEKS' SCAMPER THROUGH THE SPAS OF GERMANY AND BELGIUM, with an Appendix on the Nature and Uses of Mineral Waters. Post 8vo. cloth, 6s.
Page 9 - Some never feel sickness when on thesea; while othersare unable to bear the motion of a carriage, even a railway carriage, without nausea. The seat of the sense of nausea is the pit of the stomach; and at the bottom of that pit — like a sorcerer in his cave — lies the solar plexus, the great wizard that directs the tidal crises of the stomach, its tempests and its calms; its winds and its volcanic emotions; and to this great wizard the petitio ad...
Page 287 - Balneologists, is a Bain de luxe ; in other words, a bathing place where there is amusement, gaiety, music, dancing, gambling, even hunting, in a delicious valley and surrounded by the most beautiful and charming scenery ; and those who visit Baden go for these, and not for its mineral waters. There are some delightful excursions practicable from Baden to the summits of the hills, to the neighbouring castles or points of view ; such 292 ROJIAN POSSESSION OF BADEN.
Page 11 - ... immoveable ; while others sit with wooden firmness, gazing unchangeably on some fixed spot, such as a star, an object on the horizon, or a stationary point, if such there be, on the vessel. And wherefore these extraordinary postures, which resemble the antics of the .Indian Fakirs ? The answer is simple : to fix the muscular system over which we have control, and by that fixture to steady, if not totally to fix the solar plexus. If we effect this, we prevent the motions of the vessel from reaching...
Page 3 - British subject." 4. Passports are granted between the hours of twelve and four, on the day following that on which the application for the Passport has been received at the Foreign Office. 5. Passports are granted to persons who are either known to the Secretary of State or recommended to him by some person who is known to him ; or upon the written application of any banking firm established in London or in any other part of the United Kingdom.
Page 12 - ... brother reminded me of this voluntary exercise of control over the muscular system, and mentioned its success in himself; he remarked, also, that the priests of old sold charms to dispel sea-sickness, and that these charms, which were cabalistic figures written on parchment, were bound tightly round the person; their success appearing to depend mainly on their close pressure against the trunk of the body. It was to illustrate this experiment that I now set myself, thinking that my proncness to...
Page 6 - ... and wraps of every fashion, can make it; and suggesting the idea of a field of battle, littered by the slain. Here you meet with a pair of legs without any apparent body ; there, a brace of arms, evidently apart from the trunk to which they ought to have hung ; here is an isolated head, alack ! for the poor fellow to whom it once belonged ; now, I stumble over the corpse-like form of a...
Page 9 - SEA-SICKNESS. 9 fire of all our remedial artillery. It is quite true that it is not given to the nerves of all persons to appreciate these sensations with equal acuteness. As there are some of the creatures who people this world who have, or seem to have, no brains ; others, no hearts ; and others, no bowels — that is, of compassion ; so there are specimens of the human family who seem to exist without nerves ; while...
Page 118 - ... out over the whole skin ; but an eruption of an unusual kind, an eruption, in fact, of glittering pearls ; and then the adhesiveness of the pearls is remarkable, you cannot shake them off, but you must wipe them off with a sweep, in order to come to your white skin once again, and then they collect as fast as ever. But, as you are prohibited from moving while in the bath, and as your own sensations soon tell you that you are chilled by motion, but feel warm and comfortable under this novel costume...
Page 120 - Chapelle is watched with the most jealous care, lest it should be tampered with. Dr. D'Ibell appeals to the unmixed purity of the waters employed for the baths at Ems ; and Dr. Genth called our attention to the care with which the reservoirs for containing the waters are cemented, how they are placed underground to be...