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REFUTATION 



OF 



SOME ERRONEOUS NOTIONS 



CONCERNING CARLSBAD. 



hypocondriacal patients are inclined to be- 

 lieve, when they see the Sprudel- stones, and various 

 incrustated toys exposed for sale, that such incrus- 

 tations might equally be formed in their inside. That 

 old fancy was already refuted, in the beginning of 

 the eighteenth century, by Frederick Hoffmann, and 

 later by Springsfeld , Becher and others. Such pa- 

 tients have in general a singular propensity to spread 

 erroneous notions, and to impart to others their own 

 anxiety 5 so that every one is to be pitied, who, liste- 

 ning to his fellow - sufferers , is not guided by an 

 enlightened and steady adviser. The anxiety caused 

 by the apprehension of intestinal incrustations, should 

 yield to the following observations : 



