In the third week of the course, she was seized with a copious _purgation_ of morbid secretions, when the palpitations vanished—the abdomen became soft—the complexion cleared—and she was soon well. Now it is clear that this good lady laboured under congestion of the liver, jaundice, and loaded bowels. Nature rescued her from the heat of the Kochbrunnen, by a process which ought to have been instituted three weeks before. I shall endeavour to shew in other places, that these crises, spa-fevers, bad-sturms, and re-actions, described by the foreign writers on the Spas, are often attributable to the want of combining some mild mercurial alterative and aperient with the use of the waters. Many cures are prevented or rendered ineffectual by the dread of mercury entertained by the German physicians. The following AUXILIO-PRESERVATIVE (if I may so term it), will be found of essential service every night before taking the morning waters. ℞. Extr. Col. Comp. Pil. Rhei. Comp. aa ℈ij. Pil. Hydrarg. gr. x. Ol. Caryoph. gt. vj. Ft. pil. xx. capt. j. vel. ij. hora somni. We shall now advert to the remarks of Dr. Richter, who has published a very sensible little treatise on the Wisbaden waters, in the year 1839. GROUP OF DISORDERS IN WHICH THE WATERS, EITHER INTERNAL OR EXTERNAL, OR BOTH, ARE LIKELY TO BE USEFUL. 1. _Complaints having their seat in the abdominal organs, and especially in the biliary apparatus._—The signs or indications of these are—acidities—eructations—furred tongue—troubled digestion—loss of appetite—sense of tightness or oppression about the stomach and bowels, after food—costiveness, or relaxed bowels—congestion about the liver, with or without enlargement of that organ—hypochondriasis and hysteria—hæmorrhoids and their consequences—irritations about the kidneys and bladder—sequences of residence in tropical climates. 2. _The various forms of gout and their sequences._—Besides the regular or periodical gout, Dr. Richter enumerates the multitudinous forms which it assumes when latently preying on different organs and structures. There is no end to the proteian features of masked gout—extending as they do from the terrific lacerations of TIC DOULOUREUX down to the most anomalous morbid feeling, whether internal or external. “In all these,” D. R. avers, “the waters and baths of Wisbaden are eminently beneficial.” The baths, when assisted by the internal use of the waters, bring anomalous and latent gout into its proper place and form—into the extremities, thus relieving the interior.