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chalybeate waters , that incompatibility has been, 

 without any examination, extended to ours. Sub- 

 mitted to exact calculation, I find that six goblets 

 of water contain the 5S / 100 o tn P art f one grain of 

 oxydule of iron, that is to say almost a nullity. Let 

 us suppose that a patient drinks twelve or even 

 eighteen goblets , what influence can such a quantity 

 of iron have upon two or three cups of tea, taken 

 an hour after the waters, and still less, when taken 

 in the evening ? 



Innumerable visitors, coming from countries where 

 tea is as common a beverage (England, Russia, Po- 

 land, Holland) as coffee in Germany and France, 

 many would find it excessively hard, as they did 

 formerly at Carlsbad, to give up their habitual mode 

 of breakfasting. The fact is that tea does not ex- 

 cite the blood-vessels, as much as coffee; that it 

 acts more directly on the nervous system, and keeps 

 awake those who are not accustomed to it, or who 

 take it immoderately strong 5 that such effects are 

 never felt by people who drink it daily 5 that those 

 who never drank it, should not begin at Carlsbad 5 

 but that those who are accustomed to that beverage, 

 have no reason to discontinue it during the cure 5 

 and that black tea is far preferable to the more acerb 

 and astringent green sorts. 



Concerning breakfast, we are daily asked whe- 

 ther butter can agree with the internal use of the 

 waters. Being exquisite in our valley, I never found 



