People say that Germany, with her damp stone houses, is the home of rheumatism.

If that is so, Providence must have foreseen that it would be so, and therefore filled the land with the healing baths.

Perhaps no other country is so generously supplied with medicinal springs as Germany.

Some of these baths are good for one ailment, some for another; and again, peculiar ailments are conquered by combining the individual virtues of several different baths.

For instance, for some forms of disease, the patient drinks the native hot water of Baden-Baden, with a spoonful of salt from the Carlsbad springs dissolved in it.