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land. They went to Pisa, Leghorn and Rome, where 

 she became daily worse , affected with pulmonary 

 symptoms, night -sweats, fever, excessive weakness, 

 etc., so that her life was despaired of. A gentleman, 

 coming from Carlsbad, whose waters he had drunk 

 under my direction, for various ailments subseqnent 

 to the yellow fever he had undergone at Antigua, 

 advised that lady, though no medical man, to make 

 haste for Carlsbad, quoting his own case, quite diffe- 

 rent from hers. On her arrival (27th of June 1827), 

 finding in her almost every symptom of hectic fever, 

 cough, excessive weakness, absolute impossibility of 

 standing on her legs, still less of walking, I could 

 not allow her to try the waters, her last hope. I 

 begged of her to wait a fortnight, to allow me to 

 observe her daily, and I advised her goat -milk. The 

 pulmonary symptoms were so much relieved, that, 

 after the stipulated time , I allowed her to try the 

 waters, beginning with two beakers, w r hichl increased, 

 without any inconvenience, to eight daily. The im- 

 provement was gradual, and indeed wonderful. She 

 lost her cough, got some embonpoint, and recovered 

 strength enough to take long walks, an airing in a 

 carriage or on a donkey 5 her good humour returned 5 

 in one word , her recovery , from the moment she 

 experienced the desobtruent effects of the waters, 

 became an object of general astonishment and admi- 

 ration. For the consolidation of her cure, or rather, 

 as she said, out of gratitude, she came again, in 1828 

 and 1829 5 she closed even, against my advice, an 



