ANCIENT AND PRESENT MODE
OF
USING THE WATERS, AND CHOICE OF THE SEASON.
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The very name given to the town by its founder, Charles IV, proves enough that Carlsbad acquired its first renown as a bathing establishment. Lobkowitz, singing the virtues of our springs, speaks of bathing, not of drinking:
Quisquis in hâc lymphâ fragiles immerserit 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 magis ad m. Carlsbad being formerly recommanded 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 mulieres in hoc casu (sterilitas) redeunt sine levamine, causa est malus ordo, quia balneant in balneo