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about the end of October, and as the bottle (B) was opened in the 

 beginning of February, this shews that in the cold weather the 

 water may be preserved good, even in a white glass bottle* for three 

 months, so that it may thus be sent at intervals to Calcutta for 

 patients who cannot leave their employments ; though in such cases 

 of course, the great adjuvant, change of air, would be wanting. Mr. 

 Hodgson requests me to add from the HurJcaru of the 2nd February, 

 a notice of the virtues of these waters of which he is the author, and 

 I insert it below. 



" In a November number of the Friend of India, there appeared 

 a brief note of the mineral springs of Darjiling. The short inter- 

 vening period has sufficed, even at this, the empty season of the 

 Sanatarium, to furnish two more cases strikingly confirmatory of 

 the eminent remedial qualities of the Sikim medicinal waters. One 

 of these cases was of hereditary gout of the worst type, and aggra- 

 vated by chronic rheumatism, the other was a case of extreme 

 debility and inertness of the vital functions, particularly the action 

 of the liver, consequent on malarious fever. In the former case, 

 there has been experienced wonderful relief from pain, such as had 

 not been known by the patient for years, with as good a prospect of 

 entire recovery as in such cases is possible. 



" In the latter case the recovery has been as complete as it was 

 rapid, — strength, appetite and energy returning with the quickest 

 pace without the least aid from medicine, which indeed before the 

 resort to the waters had been found to be of no further service. 



" It seems important that the public should be made aware what a 

 blessing is within the reach of all persons suffering from general 

 debility and inertness of functional action, from gout, from rheu- 

 matism, even the most severe and long dated, from secondary 

 syphilis, from glandular and cutaneous affections generally, and 

 lastly from sores of a bad type and long standing, that have resisted 

 the employment of internal and external pharmacopeial remedies. 

 As already stated by the writer in the Friend of India, there are 

 many of these springs in various parts of Sikim, the virtues of which 



* The light would aid the decomposition, and green glass bottles would be 

 always best. 



