Sources of Ancient Healing Thermalism

Pliny the younger, Letters, VI, 16.

Admiranda est Baianae amoenitas et circumiectuum: nulla enim Italiae pars tam iucundam praebet prospectum sinus ac maris

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Cicero ad Atticum 353.2

Cicero, after describing how he recieved Caesar at his villa in Puteoli, on the first day of Saturnalia, explains that the dictator was going to spend one day in Puteoli

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Cicero ad Atticum 353.2

Cicero, after describing how he recieved Caesar at his villa in Puteoli, on the first day of Saturnalia, explains that the dictator was going to spend one day in Puteoli

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Celsus 2.17.1

Formas de provocar el sudor en un enfermo que lo necesite: el calor seco y el baño en aguas calientes termales, como en Bayas.

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Cicero ad Atticum 217.6

After the death of Lucius Cornelius Lentulus Crus, Cicero says that he had planned to recieve a property in Baiae as a reward for staying on Pompey’s faction.

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