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is not good speed, unless the patient be naturally robust and not 

 much weakened by his ailment. 



" Thirty to forty baths usually suffice even in severe cases, and 

 should more be deemed needful, it is thought better to suspend the 

 use of them, after having taken so many, and to recur to the bath- 

 ing after an interval of some weeks. The method of using the bath 

 is borrowed entirely from the people of the country. A duct brings 

 the water from its source to the bathing place, which is both bath- 

 room and dwelling ; and this arrangement is adopted to guard against 

 cold, nor should it be much deviated from in any future arrangement, 

 the precaution being of cardinal importance. 



" Besides heating the water with red hot stones tossed into the 

 bathing tub, the JLepchas use an infusion of the bark of a tree, the 

 genus and species of which are yet to be determined. But the 

 necessity of this addition to the inherent virtue of the element has 

 already been in good measure disproved, so we will here close our 

 notice of the medicinal waters or baths of Darjeeling, referring our 

 reader also to the article in the Friend of India above adverted to." 



II. 



Mineral Water, from a spring walled in, at Kudjorah in Jessore, 

 from A. Gbote, Esq., G. S. 



This water is tasteless, or but very slightly saline. 



It has no smell. 



There was a little flaky yellowish brown deposit in the bottle, 

 which was carbonate of iron. 



Tests— for Acids. 



Silver Foil, No Sulphuretted Hydrogen. 



Litmus and Turmeric, No free Acids. 



Acet. Lead sol precepte., Carbonic Acid. 



Mur. Barytes, No Sulphuric Acid. 



Nitrate Silver (plentiful,) . Muriatic Acid. 



Gold Leaf test, , No Nitrate. 



For Bases. 



Mur. Platina, No Potass, 



Carbonate Ammonia and Phosphate Soda, Magnesia, 



Oxalate Ammonia and Sulphate Soda, Lime. 



