ANCIENT AND PRESENT MODE
OF
USING THE WATERS, AND CHOICE OF THE SEASON.
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
