Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Practitioner, Vol. 14: A Journal of Therapeutics and Public Health; January to June, 1875 On the Curative Effects of Baths and Waters; being a Handbook to the Spas of Europe. By Dr. Julius Braun, including a chapter on the Treatment of Phthisis by Bathing and Climates, by Dr. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.