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The Spitalbrunn supplies the baths of the Saint 

 Bernard's Hospital, and is not frequented by other 

 invalids. 



Which ever of the springs patients are recom- 

 manded to, they regularly come from six to eight 

 o'clock. Some of them drink a few goblets in the 

 evening. The interval prescribed between one beaker 

 and the other being a quarter of an hour, scarcely 

 more than nine or ten beakers can be taken during 

 two hours. Such a quantity proves sufficient in most 

 cases 5 many patients, however, going far beyond 

 that number, begin earlier. Few places in Europe 

 offer, upon such a small spot, a more remarkable 

 diversity of ranks, professions, countries, tongues, 

 religions and costumes. Medical doctrines, rational 

 or empirical, never had any influence upon the number 

 of its visitors, which has always been increasing. 



Carlsbad has been often , and not improperly, 

 called an elegant hospital. Though many invalids, 

 unable to walk, drink in their lodgings, by far the 

 greatest number attend the wells: 



DuL-.iiis e.v iftso fon.lt bibnntur Aquae. 



Abdominal diseases being here the most frequent, 

 no where perhaps can jaundice and sickly complexions 

 be seen under more forms and degrees. Most people 

 attributing to the Sprudel an imaginary supremacy, 

 melancholy, misanthropic and hypocondriacal patients 

 shew a particular predilection for that fountain. If 

 those sickly and sinister faces offer a painful sight, 



