1824.] 
of Saxony, Dr. Strouve opened an insti- 
tution at Dresden, in the summer of 
1819, for the purpose of giving his ar- 
tificial waters of Carlsbad and Marien- 
bad to the patients, who were recom- 
mended to try them, instead of visiting 
the springs. This was done inan open 
garden, containing a spacious pump- 
room, wherein, by means of machinery, 
he preserved reservoirs of the warm 
waters at their requisite temperature, 
and restored the gas which had escaped 
during the process of preparing them 
for use. 
The success of this experiment ex- 
ceeded his most sanguine expectation. 
During the season several hundred pa- 
tients, who had been accustomed to pay 
an annual visit to the baths, and who 
consulted Dr. Kregsig, physician to the 
king of Saxony, on their way through 
Dresden, by his advice used the arti- 
ficial instead of the natural waters; 
and these eventually proved as bene- 
ficial as the spring itself. 
The following season the same suc- 
cess attended Dr. Strouve’s establish- 
ment. He increased the number of the 
imitated springs; when the addition of 
many new visitors induced him to form 
a similar institution at Leipsic. Here, 
too, his plans were attended with the 
same favourable result; and amongst 
his patients in both cities were several 
Englishmen, who had visited Germany 
for the sake of using the mineral waters, 
either medicinally or by way of bath. 
The success of his undertaking now 
began to attract the attention of the 
neighbouring states; and Dr. Strouve 
received a flattering testimony of its 
merit, by being invited to establish 
similar springs in Berlin, Warsaw, St. 
Petersburgh, and Moscow, as well as in 
some of the principal towns of the 
minor German states. 
For the purpose of introducing these 
artificial mineral waters into England 
with the best possible effect, Dr.Strouve 
has erected an extensive building at 
Brighton, in a garden, where the whole 
process, from the act of purifying the 
various ingredients to that of adminis- 
tering them to the patients, will be car- 
ried on under the same roof. A pump 
room, fifty fect by thirty, containing on 
one side the apparatus for the produc- 
tion of the waters, will be thrown open 
at five o’clock in the morning; and the 
various kinds may be then taken under 
the same circumstances as at the water- 
ing places. 
Method of Imitating the Mineral Waters of Germany, &c. 
207 
With regard to the waters them- 
selves, they are too various to allow me 
to enter upon any detailed description 
of them here. It remains to be tried in 
this country, whether the peculiar com- 
bination of the ingredients with the gas 
in the water imparts to it any proper- 
ties which can only be obtained by that 
means, or not. In favour of this hypo- 
thesis may be quoted the experience of 
ages, during which patients have con- 
tinued to-drink mineral waters with 
advantage ; and although this has been 
imputed ‘to the relaxations created by a 
journey from home by many eminent 
physicians, yet the evidence of more 
recent experience, which has arisen 
from the use of Dr. Strouve’s artificial 
water at Dresden by the inhabitants of 
that city, must be admitted to be a 
powerful evidence in favour of the effi- 
cacy insisted upon by the German phy- 
sicians. Dr. Kregsig, in a paper published 
with Dr. Strouve’s prospectus, says, 
“Upon myself, the artificial Carlsbad 
waters have had an uncommonly good 
effect: I am indebted to them for as 
much relief as I formerly experienced 
from the natural mineral waters,” &c. 
&c. He, of course, took them in Dres- 
den, when his own extensive practice 
would require a continuance of the same 
attention and exertions as at any other 
time. A work is now in the press by 
Dr. Kregsig, which has been written for 
the express purpose of describing the 
mode of using these waters, and of treat-, 
ing the patient whilst under the influence 
of them, which cannot fail to be of great 
service in the commencement of their 
introduction into this country. 
Amongst other waters, Dr. Strouve 
prepares an artificial Seltzer, which is 
likely to become, in this country, an 
article of very extensive consumption, 
from its agreeable character as a be- 
verage, independent of its medicinal 
properties. 
In Germany, where the real Seltzer 
water (even in its deteriorated state, 
arising from the mode of bottling) is 
a common luxury, upwards of one 
million and a half of bottles are yearly 
consumed, besides large quantities 
which are shipped to the tropical 
climates. 
Permit me, Sir, to apologize for the 
length of this letter, and assure you of 
my esteem. K. 
JouRNAL 
