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ried zeal. The advantage he derived from the warm 

 springs of Baden, seems to have likewise turned his 

 attention to various mineral springs in Switzerland, 

 with a view to ascertain their medicinal properties. 

 The water of some of these he used as a bath, and 

 others, of a chalybeate nature, were taken internally. 

 These various restoratives, in connexion with his 

 long travel, bodily exercise, and the agreeable society 

 of friends, of whom he had many scattered over the 

 whole country, so improved his health, that we find 

 him writing, on his return, to one of his friends, 

 that he was now stronger than he had been for 

 many years. Among other fruits of this expedition, 

 his herbarium, garden, and museum, received large 

 accessions. 



He now enjoyed a respite for some time from his 

 various maladies, and we accordingly find him im- 

 mersed in a multitude of literary undertakings, in- 

 cluding several publications on botany. It was 

 probably, in a great measure, in consequence of the 

 too great exertions thereby entailed, that he was so 

 soon again compelled (in the month of August 1562) 

 to seek relief from the waters of Baden, whither he 

 repaired, for the third time, in company with his 

 wife, whose health had been all along as precarious 

 as his own. By using the waters in a manner 

 somewhat different from his former practice, he 

 speedily became convalescent, and in order to fol- 

 low up this favourable change, as he had been 

 accustomed to do on former occasions, by long con- 

 tinued exercise in the open air, he invited his friend 



