ARNSTADT

(Ger.), n. ASrn’stast. A health resort in the Thu ring i an Forest, where the climate is very equable, and said to be beneficial in cases of impoverishment of the blood, debility, nervous affections. It has a salt spring (die A’er Soole), the water of which is added to baths in the proportion of 8 per cent.; 1,000 arts of the water contain 237°3 of solid constituents, including 40 of sodium chloride, 6'450 of calcium chloride, 5110 of magnesinm chloride, 0°001 of magnesium iodide, 0:054 of magnesium O, no; 02, not; 03, whole; Th, thin; Th, the; U, like 00 in too; U4, blue; U8, lull; U4, full; US, urn; US, like ti (German). bromide, and 1°700 of calcium sulphate. The mother-liquor is noted for its richne in iodine and bromine, Diluted with carbonic-acid water, both the water of the spring and the mother-liquor are taken internally under the names of Salzquelle, Arnshaller Wa er, and Jodbitterwa er. There is another salt spring, the Riedquelle, in the neighborhood, the water of which, clear or mixed with milk or whey, is given to children with scrofula, catarrh, etc. There are two large bathing establishments at A. [A, 319.]