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great number of patients, in consequence of a sedentary life, of studious habits, daily abuse of opening medecines, come to Carlsbad without other complaints than habitual costiveness. Our waters remove in general that torpidity of the digestive tube, restore the regularity of its functions and appetite; but such patients, if they wish their cure to be permanent, must absolutely give up those auxiliary means, and join to the use of the waters a regular regimen. We see often individuals affected with a variety of abdominal disorders, and their direct and indirect consequences upon digestion, upon the nervous and cutaneous systems, without being able to discover the least induration or increased sensibility by the touch; but their yellow complexion and their 5