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the waters and by bathing. Though such diseases 

 occur rarely in other classes of people, I remember 

 to have treated with success the proprietor of lead- 

 manufactures, and a celebrated painter, affected with 

 numbness of the hand, produced by metallic influen- 

 ces. David Bccher quotes some cases, where disor- 

 ders occasioned by arsenic were cured or relieved 

 at Carlsbad. 



I have attended successfully many patients, who 

 had laboured under the yellow fever, dysentery, cho- 

 lera, intermittent fevers, acute and chronic disorders 

 of the liver and spleen at Antigua, Batavia, the Mau- 

 ritius, Rio de Janeiro, Calcutta, etc. The symptoms 

 which brought them to Carlsbad were abdominal in- 

 durations, morbid complexion, herpetic eruptions, dys- 

 pepsy, hypocondriasis , etc., which, in spite of their 

 various geographical origin, did in no respect differ 

 collectively from those of the patients we see every 

 year, coming from all parts of Europe. 



