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of which the calf had grown to an enormous size, the cellular texture about the inside ancle also being indurated, and tlic skin coloured red. This suffering greatly impeded her in the management of household-affairs, and, various medicines she used, being not attended with success, she rcpaired to Wildbad, where the usc ofthebatbs, combined with the application of the douche, soon had the desired effect of curing her.
The scrophulous disorders, which have tbeir seat in the lymphatic System, if they are not yet inveteratcd, and the svvellings of the glandulous parts, unless they have taken a scirrhous character, are offen radically curcd at Wildbad. Dr. Frickcr cven relates some instances of far gone intumescence and induration of the mesenteric tjlands, which have been cured by the use of fliese baths. They also possess great virtue in cases of induration and swelling of the lirer and the spieen , which so offen produce a faulty or insufficient secretion of bile, so that jaundiced patients have frequently been restored to licalth by the sole use of these waters. In femalb complaints, (particularly in cases of slerilily) , this bath is a most powerful agent, removing, as it does, parlicular obstructions accompanied by chlorosis or green sickness, bringing the blood into a more brisk circulation, and giving to it the necessary degree of fluid- ity. Such patients however, as are subject to a> flux of blood from the bowels, or spitting of blood, or are prone to abortion; ought to abstain from these baths. — Theo- phraslus Paracelsus , in his book on the natural baths, says: “Old, worn-out people ought to stay at Wildbad ,” and the truth of his remark is still evident. These baths scrve in- deed almost to make the old young again; while younger persons, who have become prematurely old, owing to ex- haustion, and those who are exhaustcd by closc application