THE BATHING AND DRINKING ESTABLISHMENTS.

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assertion, I inay mention, tliat on reading over again tlie notcs writlen in the afternoon of the day on wliich I had taken my batli at Gastein, I find myself complaining of being particularly nervous at tlie time, although no one could have been in better healtli tlian I enjoyed in the morning. The state of inward thrilling and Agitation which I experienced, for several liours after the bath, was new to me, and quite distressing. No such cffect had followed my bathing at Wildbad, either on the day of using the bath, or on the day after. Hence, the two waters tan only be said, on the authority of fliese physicians, to be medically of use when at nearly equal temperatures. In such a case, I repeat, that the one at Wildbad will be found infinitely preferable. The venerable Marshai Prince de W—, whose favourable experience and opinion of the Gastein batlis arc worth quot- ing—admitted to Lady D—, a patient of minc, that the patient experienccs lowness of spirit or depression during the course of bathing and residence at Gastein; that at his departure thence, irritability, excitation, over-energy follow; that in a rnonth or two after his return homc, langour and exhaustion succeed; and that these are, in tlieir turn, dis- placed, after another month or so, by the conscious en- joyment of invigorated healtli. At Wildbad the preliminary lowness of spirit and depression, noticed at Gastein, never make tlieir appcarance.

Wildbad again is equal, if not superior, to most of the Principal Spas of Germany, in the beauty and romance of its environs; the mystery and tradition which attachcs to some of tliem ; the geology of its neighbourhood; and the rieh harvest it offers to the botanist. The air of Wildbad is pure and bracing; and in general the climate, during the three nionths of the bathing season, is unexceptionable.

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