MEDICAL VIRTUES OE THE WILDBAD WATERS.

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are more efßcacious in tbis stage, and in many cases not only produce a partial iniprovement, but frcquently eradicate complete paralyses of thc lower members.

A young Englisli officer who bad been obligcd to stand for a considerable time with bis feet in a cold river, bad caught a cold, followcd by complete paralysis of tlie inferior limbs, wliich already began to show Symptoms of atrophy. He innnediately, without Consulting a physician, set out for Wildbad, wbere he bathed in the hottest spring, and remained in tbe water so long as lie could bear it. Hemcn- ded rapidly, so that at the end of a fortnigbt he could lay aside his crutches, and walk by the aid of a cane. Düring this state of convalescence he beard of the approaebing corona- tion of tbe Queen; he went to London , where be assisted at the ceremony, and returned to Wildbad after a few weeks;— tbis journey fortunately was attended with no evil eonsequences, and wben he ultimately left Wildbad, tbe free use of bis limbs was restored to bim.

A youth of 18 years, some time ago, suffered of an irritation of tbe spinal marrow, accompanied by numb- ness of the arms, stringyncss of botb liands and feet, constipation, pains in some portions of the back, and great sensibility of tbe vertebral column; these were fol- lowed by excruciating pains in tbe upper and lower extre- mities, attended with violent convulsions. The latter con- tinued in unabated force for about six months, and then disappeared by degrecs, leaving however a total paralysis of tbe inferior members. Various niethods were tried to stop tbe progress of the disease, but unsuccessfully. The use of Wildbad for two succeeding seasons produced so considerable an iniprovement in the pitiable state of the young man, that his physician advised a third course of bathing in 1844; tbis, in conjunction with repeated appli-