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those whom Brighton had not restored, 

 regretted their having placed confidence 

 in artificial preparations. Far from at- 

 tempting to depreciate those imitations, 

 or examining in what respects art and 

 nature may agree or differ , my sole ob- 

 ject is to point out the causes of the 

 increase of english visitors at Carlsbad, 

 Knowing that v hepatic , splenetic , dys- 

 peptic , gravelly , herpetic and gouty 

 cases abound in Great Britain, as indeed 

 more or less every where, many of those 

 invalids have encouraged me to publish 

 an english description of the place, and 

 a short account of the nature and effects 

 of our waters, and of the various ways 

 of using them, either by drinking, bathing 

 or steam. It will be perhaps considered 

 as a bold undertaking, to write in a lan- 

 guage which I learned nearly half a 

 century ago, during my medical studies 

 at Edinburgh. My only wish is to be 

 understood, and I shall never take it 

 amiss, if my reader now and then smiles 

 at a gallicism or a germanism. 



