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submitting our invalids to useless privations and painful abstinences, a regular regimen must, however, accompany the use of a mineral water, which excites so manifestly the vascular system, and the action of the bowels, kidneys and skin. The few rules of our dietetic code are seldom transgressed with impunity.

In enumerating our various provisions, I remarked that our restaurateurs never present any dish incompatible with the use of the waters, and that dangerous dainties are not to be found at Carlsbad.

The interval of an hour is necessary between the last beaker and the breakfast, and, in order to promote the digestion of the water, patients, stout enough to continue the walk they have taken at the wells, should protract it about an hour longer, before their