AIX

(Fr.), n. Ax. A city of Provence, in the department of Bouches-du-Rhone, where there are thermal baths of great antiquity, now rot so much used as anciently. [D, 8.|—A.-en-Savoie. See. A.-les-Bains — A.-la-Chapelle. See AACHEN les-Bains. The Aquæ allobrogum (seu Domitice, seu Gratianæ)‘of the ancient Romans; elas in the department of Savoie, in France, on the from Lyons to Turin, having an elevated situation, a mild climate, / and pure air and water, also sulphurous and aluminous V springs, of a temperature of about 45° C., containing in 10,000 parts: ®)-i2-the?m-o/ma’. Ase The sulphur spring, 0°300 Sodium chloride........... Gonôsagagad Sodium sulphate..….....…...….…..........0827.. Magnesium sulphate. 0735. Calcium sulphate... ë Aluminium sulphate...................0°081,...... 0°003 Calcium phosphate.. 0°068...........traces. Magnesium carhonat 0:105.. 0°176 Calcium carbonate... K Ferrous carbonate. Silicic acid Solid constituents,.-............ Sulphur in the form of hyposulphites. Free hydrogen sulphide. 0443, Much use is made of various forms of douche, also of frictions and ma age. The treatment has been found efficacious in promoting the absorption of exudates, muscular atrophy, caries, contractures, chronic skin diseases, syphilis, and catarrhs. [A. Reumont (A, 319).] See also CHALLES and MARLIOZ.