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of the hemorrhoTdal vessels and a new flux have 

 relieved painful symptoms of head-ach and general 

 plethora. 



In chlorotic disorders and menstrual derangements, 

 the good effects of the Carlsbad waters are less to be 

 expected from the very small quantity of iron - oxyd 

 which they contain, than from their desobstruent qua- 

 lity and their manifest power of accelerating circulation 

 and vivifying the complexion. The same is to be 

 said of leucorrhea , in the treatment of which we 

 must carefully distinguish whether it proceeds from 

 obstruction of the abdominal organs, or from mere 

 debility. The first class can be essentially improved 

 at Carlsbad ; the second requires in general other 

 more chalybeate and gaseous waters, such as Fran- 

 zensbrunn and the Ferdinand's wells at Marienbad. 

 During pregnancy and during menstruation, drinking 

 must be interrupted 5 but there may be cases of very 

 scanty monthly period, during which it may be re- 

 commended with success. 



We see every year, amongst the indigent patients 

 admitted in the St. Bernard's Hospital, a few indivi- 

 duals, who, after having worked in the different loo- 

 king-glasses manufactures of Bohemia , Nuremberg, 

 etc., are unable to continue their profession, on ac- 

 count of a shaking of the whole frame or of some 

 limbs, brought on by the influence of quick -silver 

 or lead. The physician attending that hospital, has 

 assured me repeatedly that the greatest number of 

 them are cured or relieved by the internal use of 



