The tepid springs of Albula, in the vicinity of Rome, are briefly mentioned by Pliny (l. c.); Vitruvius (viii, 3); and Pausanias (Messeniaco.) Among the natural springs of the Romans the Fons Aponus, or Bagni d’Abano, near Padua, is particularly celebrated. Claudian’s poem in praise of its medicinal waters is well known. He calls it “Publica morborum requies, commune medentûm Auxilium, præsens numen.” Joannes de Dondis has given an elaborate disquisition on the hot springs of Padua, but it is not by any means so satisfactory as could be desired. This would be the proper place to give some account of the ancient Temples of Health, most of which, there is reason to believe, were connected with medicinal springs. But our information respecting them is so scanty, that we can scarcely venture to touch upon the subject at all. We would refer, however, to what Pausanias says of the warm saline springs in the neighbourhood of the Asclepieion at Cenchreæ in Corinthiaca (ii, 2, 4), and of the springs near the temple of Æsculapius at Corone (iv, 34); and of the wells near the temple of Æsculapius at Pergamos (viii. 25.) SECT. LIII.—ON THE REGIMEN FITTING TO THE DIFFERENT SEASONS. It is proper to regulate the diet with a view to the season. In winter to take more fatigue, and eat more than usual, if the state of the weather be northerly; but if it be southerly, to take the same fatigue, but to use less food and drink. In fine, to make the body dry in the wet season, and warmer in the cold, to eat also warm fleshes and acrid pot-herbs, and drink more wine than usual. In the beginning of spring some may evacuate by emetics, and others by laxatives, and another may get a vein opened, according as habit or inclination directs. Rest is suitable to the season of summer, and also a diminution of labour and food; the food also ought to be more cooling and the drink abundant; and, in short, everything ought to be done which can contribute to cooling and dilution. In autumn, as it is a changeable, unsettled, and unhealthy season, the diet ought to be particularly attended to, that it be not too refrigerant; moderation as to venery and cold drink ought to be observed; and the cold breezes of morning and the heat of noon attentively guarded against. Too much fruit ought likewise not to be taken, being hurtful not only by the quantity, but also by the quality of the chyle which it supplies, and by engendering flatulence. Nay, even the best kinds of autumnal fruits, figs and grapes, engender flatulence, unless taken before any other food, for otherwise they spoil the other food; but if taken then, they neither are flatulent, nor spoil the other articles of food. When the air is cold the body must be warmed accordingly, and everything done, as in the commencement of winter. It may also be expedient, after the autumnal solstice, to have recourse to one of the afore-mentioned evacuations,