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COMPLAINTS 



WHICH 



CARLSBAD CAN CURE OR RELIEVE, 



AND THOSE 



WHICH IT AGGRAVATES. 



IT would be quite impossible to describe all the 

 complicated diseases which we treat at Carlsbad, and 

 upon which we are called to give our opinion. What 

 has been said in the preeeeding chapter, will however 

 sufficiently point out the cases in which our \vaters 

 can be recommanded. Chronic affections offering in 

 general an immense field, we cannot say with pre- 

 cision where their efficacy begins and where it ends. 

 Practical tact and a thorough investigation of the 

 symptoms must help practitioners in their judgement 5 

 but few mistakes will occur, if they pay due attention 

 to the following classification, given above sixty years 

 ago by David Becher, which, in spite of all the 

 vicissitudes of medical doctrines and nosological no- 

 menclatures, remains still the most rational. I shall 



