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the Three Pheasants , the Lusthaus , etc. etc. The 

 Blue Pike (Blaue Hecht) on the Wiese sends dinners 

 any where, but does not receive company. The 

 coockery is plain and alike every where, and no 

 invalid has reason to fear the temptation of dishes 

 contrary to the laws of the cure , about which all 

 inn -keepers have traditional and almost invariable 

 principles, suggested by the medical Faculty. Besides, 

 regimen and diet are always a subject of advice at 

 the first interview between the physician and the 

 patient. 



Of the articles of diet allowed, beef and mutton 

 are of good quality; veal, chicken and pidgeons are 

 very seldom properly fed; venison (deer) and ducks 

 are always to be had ; partridges, pheasants and hares 

 in their season; pore and goose are forbidden; vege- 

 tables are neither plentiful nor cheap , and not all 

 salutary. Carp, pike and trouts are in general to be 

 had, but particularly on fast-days, and all that class 

 of farinaceous compounds, called Mehlspeisen, are 

 perfectly well understood at Carlsbad. Made dishes 

 and scientific ragouts are never to be met with, ex- 

 cept when particularly ordered. Salad and raw fruit 

 are not allowed. Breakfast will be treated of later. 



Living, in general, is cheap, for those who are 

 under the obligation of oeconomy, though innumerable 

 occasions offer daily of spending money , as every 

 where else. A very tolerable dinner, a la carte, of 

 three or four dishes, with a bottle of good beer, can 

 be had for half a florin (30 creutzers). For the sake 



