Meskó Csaba: Thermal Baths - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
water is supplied via a subterranean pipeline from the courtyard of the Lukács Baths, 664 metres away. The temperature of this water is 43.75°C. There are a communal bath, 19 stone baths and 13 tub baths in the Király Baths. There are nine rooms at the disposal of bathing guests. ” According to a description given by Liber in 1934, the steam bath operated with three pools, 188 changing cubicles, the tub baths had six saloon tubs and six saloon stone baths, four faience tubs, eighteen marble tub baths and twenty stone baths; the baths’ waters were used with good results to cure gout, rheumatism, skin and bone diseases, cases of metallic poisoning, liver, spleen, womb and bladder related disorders and, in the form of drinking cures, they were taken with beneficial effect to ease gastric catarrh and atony of the lower abdomen. The baths, which sustained severe damage during the second world war, were restored in the fifties to plans by Egon Pfannl. The thermal steam department is now open on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays to women, while men are admitted on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays; Sunday is the day off. There are four pools filled with medicinal water of varying temperatures in the Turkish section and patrons can use the dry-air and humid-steam chambers, too. Besides medicinal baths on doctor’s orders, the tub bath offers underwater massage, refreshing massage, and medical massage. There is also a chiropodist's salon. The characteristics of the baths' waters are the same as those of Lukács Baths, since the latter’s spring remains the source of the Király’s supply to this day. The former Császár medicinal baths 35 Frankel Leó út, District II The Turkish baths, operated by ORF1 (acronym of the Hungarian for National Institute of Rheumatology and Physiotherapy), qualified as a medicinal bath as early as 1893. The Császár is among the oldest baths in Budapest, the local medicinal springs probably being known to the Romans. Miklós Oláh, the historiographer from the age of Humanism (later archbishop of Esztergom and then the vice29
