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agreeably distinguished by his characteristic originality, conciseness, 

 and precision. Experience and contemplation led him to the disco- 

 very that " a moderately-nourishing and easily-digested dinner suits 

 all patients." As a finisher to the " Popular Considerations," their 

 inditer pours forth a pathetic effusion, by way of illustrating the 

 vivacity of his patriotism and the disinterestedness of his philan- 

 thropy. " In conclusion," he observes, " 1 would say to such as are 

 able and willing to try the effect of some one of the German Spas, 

 in hopes of casting off any disease under which they may have la- 

 boured at home with little hope of recovery, — haste away, and make 

 the trial by any means. Do not waste your life and your purse in 

 swallowing endless drugs, and ringing the changes of remedies and 

 doctors, pent up in a hot house in London during the summer 

 months, or in being lifted in and out of the carriage, the prey of 

 some chronic and insidious disorder, which bafiles your vigilant phy- 

 sician's skill ; or in being sent from Brighton to Tunbridge, and 

 from thence to Leamington or Cheltenham, merely to return again 

 to Brighton or London exactly as you left it, having in the mean 

 time tried as many doctors as places to no purpose. Fly, I say, from 

 all these evils, proceed to some spring of health, and commit your- 

 self for once to the hands of Nature — medicated Nature — assisted" 

 Qby the " physician of the place," and] " by every auxiliary which 

 an excursion to a German spa brings into play ; and depend upon it 

 that either at the first, or at the second, or third," or some other 

 occasion of " visiting and using such spa you will have reason to 

 rejoice that you exchanged Art for Nature." 



Dr. G. believes that there does not exist, in any language, " a 

 work presenting the narrative of a grand tour to the most celebrated 

 and fashionable mineral watering-places of Germany in regular suc- 

 cession ; a tour in which amusement is blended with information, 

 and descriptive sketches of the humours and fancies of each spa are 

 mixed up with the accurate details, collected on the spot, of every 

 thing that is useful in a medical and social point of view." He 

 doubts not that " a work of this nature is sought for by all those 

 who wish to visit the Spas of Germany ;" and he hopes that the 

 wishes of these amiable persons may be perfectly answered by the 

 benevolence of his beautiful volumes. He "recommends this great 

 tour to all idlers as a summer diversion, instead of broiling, at double 

 the expense, at Brighton ;" and he commences his own toils on the 

 13th day of August, 1836, by entering the land of Spas in an open 

 britschka, the best sort of machine for framing observations, for ad- 

 justing facts, and for arriving at medical and social or poetical con- 

 clusions. His narrative is luminous and sprightly ; he enlivens it 

 with a fair proportion of the seeings, and sayings, and doings, of an 

 experienced traveller ; and by means of these, still farther enlivened 

 with picturesque sketches of things, and places, and persons, he has 

 succeeded most happily in making a book well qualified, by its value 

 and gentility, to become a proper companion to those who follow 



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