Meskó Csaba: Thermal Baths - Our Budapest (Budapest, 1999)
The “women’s” and the “men’s” pools in Lukács Swimming Pool disposal of the sick seeking recovery and the healthy in need of regeneration. The springs here yielding waters at various temperatures and of different curative effects were recommended for a large range of ailments. At that time the Lukács had a radium-mud bath and offered mud packing and local dry-air therapy. It aiso had tub baths and stone baths, a department of hydrotherapy with separate sections for men and for women, carbonic baths, a steam bath with a gentlemen’s and a ladies’ department, a pool filled with mineral water, again separated into men’s and women's sections, and a public steam bath. in 1885 the Lukács opened as a “gentlemen’s and ladies’ medicinal water swimming pool”. Men and women swam in two pools separated from each other by a plank wall. The memory of this is kept alive in today’s Lukács, where the 22°C pool is called the men’s, the other, at 26°C, the women’s pool. At the beginning of the century, before the Széchenyi and Gellért Baths were built, the Lukács Bath was the most important spa bath complex in Budapest, and as such it 45
