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will <lo well to have their mouth put in order before 

 the use of the waters, and to continue, during it, 

 the usual attentions commanded by cleanliness. Sage 

 and bread are at least useless. 



It is generally ascertained that our waters dissolve 

 he callus of fractured bones, and that opinion seems 

 to have no other support than a single fact, faith- 

 fully related, but falsely interpreted. It has, howe- 

 ver, produced as much sensation as if confirmed by 

 daily experience. Gentlemen of the army, in the Au- 

 strian as well as in foreign services, feeling them- 

 selves more particularly interested in it , admit as 

 an axiom, that: Whoever does not wish to experience 

 the disjunction of a fractured bone, must not drink 

 the Carlsbad waters. That erroneous opinion pre- 

 venting people who have met with such accidents, 

 from drinking the waters, in cases where they are 

 evidently indicated, I shall relate the observation publi- 

 shed by the celebrated Dr. Hufcland, which has alone 

 given rise to this general belief (Hufeland's Journal 

 der praktischen Heilkunde, Bd. XLIII. 4. Stuck, p. 

 135. 1816). 



"On the 12th of June 1716, Mr. de F., when tra- 

 tt veiling, broke his arm. Fifteen days afterwards, 

 "the fracture being sufficiently solid, the patient, to 

 "whom, before the accident, Carlsbad had been or- 

 dered for abdominal complaints, was sent there by 

 "his physician. On his arrival, the callous matter 

 "was found regularly spread on the fracture; a pro- 

 "per bandage was applied by a skilful surgeon, Dr. 



