Pliny the elder (Natural history 31.

5 12) certainly believed in them and indeed classifies springs by their mineral contents (above) and according to what in particular individual springs cure: sinews, feet, sciatica, dislocations, fractures, constipation, wounds, head, ears, eyes, infertility, stones in the bladder, miscarriage, not to mention tertian ague. Each spring has its own particular effect: Dowden, Ken. European Paganism : Realities of Cult from Antiquity to Middle Ages. London, GBR: Routledge, 1999. p 44. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/belgrade/Doc?id=10054142&ppg=67 Copyright 1999. Routledge. All rights reserved. Unstintingly, far and wide in numerous lands waters gush forth sometimes cold, sometimes hot, sometimes both, as amongst the Tarbelli, a people in Aquitaine and, a short distance away, in the Pyrenees, sometimes lukewarm or with the chill taken off, claiming to help with diseases and bursting out to help, out of all animals, man alone. They increase the number of the gods under various names and they found cities, like Puteoli in Campania [wells, now Pozzuoli], [Aquae, waters] Statiellae in Liguria [now Acqui Terme between Genoa and Turin], and [Aquae] Sextiae in the Province of Narbonne [now Aix-en-Provence], but nowhere more abundantly than in the bay of Baiae [near Pozzuoli] or with more kinds of beneficial effect: some with the efficacy of sulphur, some of alum, some of salt, some of soda, some of bitumen, some even with an acid or salt mixture. Some are beneficial from the actual steam and so great is their strength that they warm baths and even make cold water boil in [earth] basins. Pliny the elder, Natural history 31.4 f. Dowden, Ken. European Paganism : Realities of Cult from Antiquity to Middle Ages. London, GBR: Routledge, 1999. p 40. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/belgrade/Doc?id=10054142&ppg=63 Copyright 1999. Routledge. All rights reserved.