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philosophy of medicine as any of their brethren on the other side of the channel, and even often mucli more so; and tbat if they exhibit a degree of feeblencss in their practice, com- pared to the bolder and more confident treatment of Eng- lish physicians, it is because the constitutions with which they have to deal, seldoin require very active measures. The medical treatment, such as it is, of the paticnts in Germany, is evidently suited to their constitutions; as we find tbat the people there enjoy as good health as in this country, recover as fast, and do not die in larger numbers under ordinary circumstances.

In conclusion we would say to such as are able and willing to try the effect of these batlis, in liopes of Casting olf any disease under which they may have laboured at home with little hope of a recovery, — “Haste away, and make the trial by any means. Do not waste your life and your purse in swallowing endless drugs, and ringing the changes of remedies and doctors, pent np in a hot-bouse in London during the Summer months; or in being lifted in and out of the carriagc, the prey of some chronic and insidious disorder, which baffles your vigilant physician’s skill; or in being sent from Brighton to Tunbridge, and from thence to Leamington or Cheltenham, merely to return again to Brighton or London, exactly as you left it; having in the meantime tried as many doctors as places, and as many new places and new remedies as doctors, to no pur- pose. Fly, I say, from all these evils, proeeed to some spring of health, and commit yourself for once to the hands of nature — of medicated nature — assisted by every auxiliary .which an excursion to a German Spa brings into play; and depend on it, tbat either at the first, or at the second or third occasion of visiting and using such Spa, you will bave reason to rejoice tbat you exchanged art for nature.”

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