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fame of our hot springs , upon which, 

 since 1521, innumerable latin and german 

 books have been published, some of them 

 by physicians of universal renown, such 

 as Frederick Hoffmann and Tralles in the 

 eighteenth century, Hufeland and Kreysig 

 in the nineteenth. Impressed with the 

 utility of giving an account of the nature 

 and effects of these waters, in a language 

 universally understood among the higher 

 orders of society and learned men of all 

 nations, I published in French: Carlsbad, 

 ses eaux minerales el ses nouveuux 

 bains d vapeurs. Carlsbad, 1827; with 

 an Appendix since 1829; and later, the 

 Almanack de Carlsbad, ou Melanges me- 

 dicaux, scienlifiques et litleraires, rela- 

 iifs d ces thermes et au pays. Prague, 

 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835. Though 

 the booksellers, who have the copy-right, 

 take no trouble whatever to sell them 

 beyond the place, the good effect of these 

 publications, bought by english visitors, 

 and occasionally read in England by phy- 

 sicians and invalids, has been, conjointly 



