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MISCELLANEOUS PRACTICAL 

 OBSERVATIONS. 



HABITUAL COSTIVENESS. 



A great number of patients, in consequence of 

 a sedentary life, of studious habits, daily abuse of 

 opening medecines , come to Carlsbad without other 

 complaints than habitual costiveness. Our waters 

 remove in general that torpidity of the digestive tube, 

 restore the regularity of its functions and appetite ; 

 but such patients, if they wish their cure to be per- 

 manent, must absolutely give up those auxiliary 

 moans , and join to the use of the waters a regular 

 regimen. We see often individuals affected with a 

 variety of abdominal disorders , and their direct and 

 indirect consequences upon digestion, upon the ner- 

 vous and cutaneous systems, without being able to 

 discover the least induration or increased sensibility 

 by the touch; but their yellow complexion and their 



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