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The resident doctor lauds the Kreutzbninnen to the skies, and looks 

 upon it as a panacea in all chronic affections, particularly those of the 

 .digestive organs. It is his oracle, and the affection he bears it is al- 

 most romantic ; a clear proof that the worthy man is not without a 

 failing of his fellows — the weakness of waddling on hobbies. This 

 spring, says Dr. G., is his maitresse, although he is aware that, at the 

 other Brunnens, the principal physicians bear an equally ardent and 

 undivided love to the object of their adoration. When a glass of the 

 Kreutzbrunnen is drank cold, the water feels uncomfortable to the 

 stomach, but walking removes that sensation. Its taste is pleasant 

 and piquant. When mixed with an equal quantity of the same wa- 

 ter, treated so as to give the mixture 90*^, F., of temperature, the 

 taste then is exactly like that of veal broth clear of fat and with a 

 little salt in it — very pleasant. When its heat is raised to that of the 

 Sprudel, at Carlsbad, the water loses its agreeable gout de bouil- 

 lon, and acquires a stronger, more sapid, more saltish taste, somewhat 

 astringent. Great emission of the gas, or eructations, follows a 

 draught of this spring ; but the head remains undisturbed, and the 

 digestive organs still. Taken thus it is an invaluable remedy in 

 all bilious complaints, without requiring the least assistance from 

 mercury. The addition of warm to the cold mineral water instantly 

 destroys its limpidity, and gives it a gruelly appearance. 



Adding descriptive observations on the properties of this and the 

 other springs of Marienbad, on its gas-baths, its topography, society, 

 and scenery, Dr. Granville concludes with the remark that, with all 

 its advantages and amusements, Marienbad is not a Spa of pleasure. 

 It is a lovely and enchanting retreat for invalids, which offers to suf- 

 fering huraanityj in a sequestered valley, a safe, certain, and prodigal 

 source of relief, away from the bustle and din of cities, as if Nature 

 pointed out to us that health is best obtained in seclusion. 



Franzenbad is the Spa of Egra, and it has two important springs — 

 the Franzcnquelle and the Salzequelle, whose properties coincide 

 greatly with those of the waters of Marienbad, from which they also 

 differ very little in temperature. According to Dr. G., there is a no- 

 table difference in the physical effect produced by each of these springs 

 on the constitution ; both are equally active as deobstruents, and both 

 are digested with equal ease. But while ihc first, containing a larger 

 proportion of iron, stimulates and excites during its operation, and is 

 therefore inadmissible in cases of great irritability and fulness of 

 blood, the second cools and tranquillizes, is less stimulating, and puri- 

 fies without disturbance of the nervous system. 



This place also hat an extensive establishment for mud-baths, and 

 these are represented as being specific and infallible in cases of ex- 

 cessive debility and prostration, particularly in paralysis of which gout 

 has been the cause. Dr. G. testifies that the stuff used for making 

 one of these baths is an agent possessing infinite, almost dangerous, 

 power. It is quarried in an adjacent field, by means of spades. He 

 saw a layer of it nearly twenty feet deep, immediately below the turf, 



