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 the Three Pheasants, the Lusthaus, etc, etc. The Blue Pike (Blaue Hecht) on the Wiese sends dinners any where, but does not receive company. The coockery is plain and alike every where, and no invalid has reason to fear the temptation of dishes contrary to the laws of the cure, about which all inn-keepers have traditional and almost invariable principles, suggested by the medical Faculty. Besides, regimen and diet are always a subject of advice at the first interview between the physician and the patient.

Of the articles of diet allowed, beef and mutton are of good quality; veal, chicken and pidgeons are very seldom properly fed; venison (deer) and ducks are always to be had; partridges, pheasants and hares in their season; porcpork [sic] and goose are forbidden; vegetables are neither plentiful nor cheap, and not all salutary. Carp, pike and trouts are in general to be had, but particularly on fast-days, and all that class of farinaceous compounds, called Mehlspeisen, are perfectly well understood at Carlsbad. Made dishes and scientific ragouts are never to be met with, except when particularly ordered. Salad and raw fruit are not allowed. Breakfast will be treated of later.

Living, in general, is cheap, for those who are under the obligation of oeconomy, though innumerable occasions offer daily of spending money, as every where else. A very tolerable dinner, à la carte, of three or four dishes, with a bottle of good beer, can be had for half a florin (30 creutzers). For the sake.