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BOUT the middle of the sixteenth century, C. G. Springsfeld and J. G. Tilling, saxon physicians, attempted to analyse the waters of Carlsbad; but why should we recall at present the proceedings and notions of infant chymistry?

We are indebted to David Becher, of Carlsbad (born in 1725, † 1792), whose multifarious merits can not be too much praised, for the first regular analysis of our waters, in 1770, and Berzelius himself, in 1822, expressed the highest admiration for the talent and chymical knowledge displayed by Becher, with such imperfect means. He examined the Sprudel, the Neubrunn, the Gartenbrunn (now Theresienbrun), and the Schlossbrunn, and found in all the same constitutive parts, viz: