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fat Carlsbad) et nunquam bibunt ex eo. Persons 

 labouring under cutaneous disorders, leprosy and 

 other external evils, drove then to Carlsbad. We see 

 there now more diseases arising from visceral ob- 

 structions. Mathaeus Collinus de Choterina (born in 

 1516, -j-1566), a good poet and a celebrated professor 

 of the Greek language at the University of Prague, 

 (where the marble monument erected to him is still 

 to be seen) , expresses , in the following lines , his 

 wishes that a powerful friend of his, going to Carls- 

 bad, may be cured of the itch, and the consort of 

 that friend, of her sterility: 



I'uJti tffiens vestroi scnbic, precor, allcvet artus, 

 Foecundam sociatii reildat et ilia tuatii 



Payer's advice was slowly adopted, and great 

 vicissitudes have been observed, since his time, in 

 the mode of bathing and of drinking. Formerly, and 

 particularly during the sixteenth century , patients 

 remained six or eight hours a day , and even longer, 

 in the bath. A specimen of that extraordinary me- 

 thod, still followed at Loueche (Leuk), and in other 

 Swiss Baths, is described in the very remarkable 

 Journal, kept in 1571, at Carlsbad, by Dr. George 

 Handsch of Limusa, physician to archduke Ferdinand 

 of Tirol and his wife Philippine Velser, of Augsburg. 

 That journal, published in my Almanack, for 1832, 

 ch. V, is unquestionably the most instructive document 

 we possess on thermal practice during the middle age. 

 Philippine submitted, with an angelical resignation, at 



