MEDICAL VIRTUES OF THE WILDBAD WAIERS.
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that a fcw weeks aftcr their leaving the spa the cha- racteristic Symptoms of returning liealth liave appcared, and such patients afterwards liave become the inost zcalous ad- vocates of this hath.
There are many instances on record of the regenerating powers of Wildbad, of which we shall relate two of the most striking: An officer of the Wurtemberg army, aged 43, had fought in bis youth, in the Russian and French cam- paigns: in the lattcr he had suffered froin a virulent exan- them froin which he frecd himself by means of an ungucnt. Since then he cnjoyed a robust health, to which his bloorn- ing exterior bore witness. The only trace of the disease left, was an inconsiderable eruption on the lower extrcin- ities, which returned every year. In 1837, in consequence of an access of the influenza, he experienced a violent at- tack of inflanunation of the throat and wind pipe, against which all medicaments proved fruitless. He entirely lost his speech, and a continuous suppuration took place. From a visit to the goats-whey cstablishment at Kreuth he returned still more cnfeebled, as to the former Symptoms came profuse night-sweats, which exhausted liim so much, that it was expccted his life would be terminated by a phtisie of the larynx. In this state the patient was transported to Wildbad in 1838. Aftcr a fortnight’s course of bathing his whole body became covered with a violent itch, which remained another fortnight and then disappeared of it- self. From the hour this eruption first appeared, his voice returned, and the disease of the throat, togetlier with all the Symptoms of fever and exhaustion, entirely disappeared, so that after a stay of one month he left Wildbad cured and quite a new man.
The second case, observed in the season of 1844, by Dr. Schweikle,_ is still more interesting: A young man of