Ems, or BAD EMS, a bathing-place known to the Romans, and celebrated in Germany as early as the 14th century. It is situated on the river Lahn, 10 miles ESE. of Coblenz by rail. Pop. 6231, a number more than doubled by patients. Its warm mineral springs belong to the class containing soda; the only essential difference between the numerous springs is in the temperature, varying from 80° to 135° F., and in the greater or lesser amount of carbonic acid gas contained in them. Here in 1870 Benedetti got his final answer from King William.
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Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 332
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