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fame of our hot springs, upon which, since 1521, innumerable latin and german books have been published, some of them by physicians of universal renown, such as Frederick Hoffmann and Tralles in the eighteenth century, Hufeland and Kreysig in the nineteenth. Impressed with the utility of giving an account of the nature and effects of these waters, in a language universally understood among the higher orders of society and learned men of all nations, I published in French: Carlsbad, ses eaux minérales et ses nouveaux bains à vapeurs. Carlsbad, 1827; with an Appendix since 1829; and later, the Almanach de Carlsbad, ou Mélanges médicaux, scientifiques et littéraires, relatifs à ces thermes et au pays. Prague, 1831, 1832, 1833, 1834, 1835. Though the booksellers, who have the copy-right, take no trouble whatever to sell them beyond the place, the good effect of these publications, bought by english visitors, and occasionally read in England by physicians and invalids, has been, conjointly