The Carlsbad treatment for tropical and digestive ailments and how to carry it out anywhere / by Louis Tarleton Young.

  • Young, Louis Tarleton, 1859-1904.
Date:
1899
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The Carlsbad treatment for tropical and digestive ailments and how to carry it out anywhere / by Louis Tarleton Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wealthiest, wittiest, gayest, best-dressed, smartest, and most intellectual society the world produces. A truly cosmopolitan place it is in every way, both for the masses as well as the classes—a resort of all peoples, nations, and languages. Amongst this varied crowd, however, meetings of old friends and acquaintances are sure to be of almost daily occurrence. The Anglo-Saxon from all parts of the world is always strongly represented. Those who visit Carlsbad may be broadly divided into two classes. The first comprises well-to-do people, dwellers in cool climates, who are usually over- worked, overfed, and under-exercised, or those suffer- ing from constitutional or other affections, such as gout, rheumatism, diabetes, jaundice, etc. The second class comprises the great contingent of residents in tJie tropics or hot countries generally, whose health is undermined by the effects of malaria, heat, and a bad climate. Officers of the Indian Army and of the various Civil Services of the Government of India furnish a large contingent to this class. There are usually some thousands of Indian officers and officials in Europe on leave every year, and the percentage of these going to Carlsbad is yearly increasing. The effects of the waters may be concisely stated to be a thorough cleansing of the digestive and blood- purifying organs, so that youth is renewed like the eagles. They are somewhat aperient in their action, and so differ from the purely alkaline waters like Vichy and Contrexeville. There are, however, a large number of persons who, either from dislike to foreign travel, or to such a long and fatiguing railway journey, or for many other reasons, cannot
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