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felt a vertigo , lost my appetite, was unable to stand 

 upon my legs , my eyes were sparkling, my cheeks 

 burning, and I had almost apoplectic feelings. These 

 violent symptoms lasted only two days , after which 

 I continued, during six weeks, to drink seven bea- 

 kers of Neubrunn, beyond which I could never go. 

 I was very little purged, but the excretion of a fe- 

 tid and oily urine lasted as long as the use of the 

 water. Gradually all my complaints disappeared, and 

 I was fortunate enough to get completely rid of a 

 large herpetic eruption on the neck , which had an- 

 noyed me beyond expression during six years, and 

 had resisted a variety of remedies , and even sulfu- 

 reous fumigations. My health has been since and is 

 still (1835) perfect. 



Such a complete and radical cure , operated in so 

 short a time, is not a daily occurrence, and inveterate 

 gouty cases require in general the repetition of the 

 treatment. 



Piles, fluent or blind, being oftener a concomitant 

 symptom than a primary disease, it is nearly impos- 

 sible to give fixed precepts about the use of our 

 waters in hemorrlioi'dal cases, which must be examined 

 and weighed in their totality , before we can decide 

 how far Carlsbad may be useful or hurtful. I have 

 seen a few patients where the great abundance of 

 flux obliged me to send them to other mineral wa- 

 ters, acting with less energy on the vascular system. 

 On the other side, 1 have observed a still greater 

 number of cases of blind piles, where the bursting 



