On Marienbad Spa, and the diseases curable by its waters and baths - Tapa blanda

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1873 Excerpt: ...change with time, these waters will still keep their position in future as they have done during the past, the more because, generally speaking, the cures attained through their use are radical--in other words, they restore lost health. In Marienbad there is an open field for every medical man's observation and investigation, and diseases can be studied.there with greater precision. If people of a plethoric constitution, who are not yet ill, perceive that their daily motions begin to be scanty and of rare occurrence--that they cause more difficulty and require greater effort for expulsion--that the abdomen feels tight and expanded, especially in both sides, called hypochondric regions, and are crossed by sudden lancenating or shooting pains or stitches, so that after eating, a certain heaviness, sleepiness, laziness is noticed, accompanied by yawning and stretching, by eructations, anxiety, and general feelings of discomfort--that the sleep at night begins to be interrupted or disturbed by anxious thought and exciting dreams,--then it will be advisable to make a pilgrimage to Marienbad to drink the Kreuzbrunnen, which will suppress the threatened outbreak of long and painful disorders, and obviate threatened dangers, besides granting a new lease of active and happy life free from apoplectic attack or other disease, as gout, haemorrhoids, &c Remember, therefore, that Marienbad is a true prophylactic against all these dangers; that you can cast off the fetters of anxiety and sickness there, and return with good health, new hope, and fresh spirits. Frerichs, the celebrated author of "A Clinical Treatise on Diseases of the Liver," and my eminent, admired, and accomplished teacher, whose lectures are for ever impressed upon my mind, says, on the or...