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As far as I know, the english medical litterature has no other writings to produce upon Carlsbad, but

1. A Letter of James Mounsey. M. D., Physician to the Czarina’s army, to Mr. Baker. F. R. S., on the hot springs of Carlsbad. Riga, 1 July 1749. Philos. Trans, vol. 46, p. 217.

2. J. Milles. Relatio de aquis mineralibus Carolinis in Bohemiâ. Ibid, vol. 50. P. 1, p. 25.

3. Robert Whytt’s works. Edinb. 1768. 4.

4. A translation of Dr. Kreysig’s (of Dresden) german work, under the title of Treatise on the use of the natural and artificial waters of Carlsbad, Ems. Marienbad, etc. London, 1824. Sold at Brighton.

Though the nature of our springs has not been altered, since the three english physicians, just mentioned, wrote upon them, medical and chemical doctrines have undergone as many changes as the place itself and its institutions. Such