Schultz and Warker's Mineral Spring Waters: Their Chemical Composition, Physiological Action and Therapeutical Use; With a Short Review of the History of Mineral Waters (Classic Reprint) - Brossura
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Excerpt from Schultz and Warker's Mineral Spring Waters: Their Chemical Composition, Physiological Action and Therapeutical Use; With a Short Review of the History of Mineral Waters
We Should also mention the Castalian Spring, which had a temperature of only and in which Pythia had to bathe before ascending the tripod in the steaming cave in Apollo's oracle at Delphi. There are copious exhalations of carbonic acid gas in that cave, and from the short and incoherent sen tenoes which the priestess uttered in her excitement and paroxysms the most important prophecies were drawn by a cunning priesthood. Such were also the gas springs of Dodona, the most ancient oracle of the Greeks, and the places where Odysseus and Eneas communicated with Hades to meet the Spirits of the departed.
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