MEDICAL V1RTUES OF THE WILDBAD WATKRS.
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of cases, which abundantly bear out cverything advanced here in their favour.
Before entering more fully upon particulars connected with tbe curalwe effccts of the Wildbad waters, wc shall take leave to point out to the notice of our readers, the primary impressions they aTe apt to receive from tbeir use. Man, it has been said, is the slave of impulsc;— this apoph- tegm niiglit as well have been changed, without losing the least particle of its trutli, and. tlie word ‘impression ’ substi- tuted for ‘impulse’. Many invalids, wbo use tbis Spa for the first time, will, after a course of a few baths, probably declaim against it; we sliall therefore, by relating faithfully the impressions the patient will experience in the commcnce- ment of his eure, endeavour to remove erroneous notions as to the iincompatibility of the water with their Constitution, etc. —For, as the old saying hath it, “Fore-warned is fore-armed.”
The primary eifects of the Wildbad water, as in fact those of all other therrns, consist in an excitement of the whole frame by an accelerated circülation of the blood; this excitement, according to the Constitution and the age of the patient is followed by various Symptoms, of which the comnionest are a certain Sensation of lassitude, and of fatigue in the extremities of the body, a drowsiness, immediately after taking the batli, particularly if the injunctions of the bath- physician, relative to tbe duration of the batli have been disregarded, and the patient has been induced, by the agree- able sensations of well-being he experiences in the water, to remain in it longer than prudence would warrant. In the first baths no one should stop above fifteen minutes; after a serics of thern certainly they may be prolonged to thirty or forty-five minutes, but more than that ought to be all- owed only in a very few cases. — This feeble irritation some-