WHERE CICERO CURED HIS GOUT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 13325, 3 November 1906, Page 5 (Supplement)

WHERE CICERO CURED HIS GOUT.

SIGXOB DE JLvrixis. the well-known Italian deputy, has taken a leaf out of the book of his illustrious confrere, Marcus Tullius Cicero, bathing in the mud of Lake?. Aguan, as Cicero did two thousand years ago in order to get rid of the gout. The mud of the .standing waters in the district west of Naples was famous from, earliest times for the relief of arthritis; the luxurious high livers of the Imperial days knew its efficacy, and no doubt did their " cure" there in much the fame rough and ready fashion as their modern representative does now. * ; The district in which the beneficial mud of Lake Aguan is deposited was known in the old days as Campi 'Phelegraei, the Phlegrrean Fields, and it lies between Naples and Cumse, with Puteoli (Pozzuoli) on the seashore. It is one of the most interesting parts of Campania, and, of course, highly volcanic, as is the whole shore of the Bay of Naples. It is no doubt to the sulphur and other deposits that the. mud of the little lakes on the promontory of Cunise owes its healthgiving properties, and as Nature works much the same way now in that region as she did in the time of the Ccesars the effect upon Siguor Marinis' gout will be much the same as" when the great Tully soaked his inflamed joints in the ooze of thePhlegr»an Fields.