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afflicted by such diseases. The effect of our waters 

 is powerful, when those concretions do not overpass 

 the diameter of the urinary passages, but little is to 

 be expected from their lithontriptic action upon bigger 

 stones. Their solidity and composition being very 

 different, the effect of the water cannot be the same 

 upon all, and we have not the means of ascertaining 

 their nature in the human body. The best authors, 

 particularly Becher, pretend, and many cases have 

 confirmed to me the truth of their observation , that 

 our springs correct and destroy the tendency to a 

 formation of stones (lithiasis} , and of late French 

 lithotomists and lithotritists, among them Dr. Civiale 

 himself, have sent to Carlsbad patients successfully 

 operated , to prevent the reproduction of calculi. 



ARTHRITIC AND HEMORROIDAL DISORDERS; 



CHLOROTIC AND OTHER FEMALE MALADIES 5 



METALLIC INFLUENCES, ETC. 



Arthritic and gouty disorders, every where so 

 frequent and so cruel, find here essential relief, and 

 sometimes their complete removal. Becher, after 

 thirty years practice , affirmed that one third of the 

 patients he had treated at Carlsbad , suffered more 

 or less from that morbid principle. A physician, 



