SEDLITZ WATER. 255 
a large portion of carbonic acid gas. or fixed air, and this 
is given out in such quantity by the water, that it fills 
several caverns, in the rocks adjoining to the springs, 
rendering them fatal to all animals which incautiously 
enter them. 
The waters of Carlsbad are used for the removal of a 
great variety of disorders, but particularly such as are 
connected w r ith indigestion. They are likewise used in 
obstructions of the bowels, and diseases of the kidneys. 
About five pints, divided into fourteen portions, are, on 
an average, drunk by each individual every day. 
The Sprudel spring is better than that of any mineral 
waters which are employed medicinally. It requires to 
be considerably cooled before it can either be used as 
a bath, or drunk. Its heat is such that it is occasionally 
employed, in place of water artificially heated, for se- 
veral domestic purposes, such as the scalding of fowls 
and hogs, the feathers and hair of which it immedi- 
ately loosens. 
Several hundred pounds weight of Glauber's salt are 
annually prepared from this water. 
6. SIMPLE SALINE WATERS. 
289. SEDLITZ WATER is very salt and bitter. It 
contdim a small portion of chalk, some sulphat of lime (192), 
carbonat of magnesia, muriat of magnesia, and a very great 
proportion of Epsom salt (199), to which its bitter taste and 
medicinal virtues are principally attributed. 
The spring for which the village of Sedlitz, in Bohe- 
mia, has long been celebrated, was, for many years, 
wholly neglected by the inhabitants, on account of the 
bitter and nauseous taste of its water, which rendered 
it unfit for nearly all domestic purposes. Its virtues, as 
a medicine, were first brought into notice about the 
year 1721, by Hoffman, the celebrated Prussian physi- 
cian; x 
This water is considered a valuable remedy in cases of 
indigestion, for removing scorbutic humours, and in 
several other complaints. 
