Excerpt from Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation; With an Inquiry Into the Comparative Merits of Different Mineral Waters: The Maladies to Which They Are Applicable, and Those in Which They Are Injurious Many tribes of the great john bull family appear, of late years, to have abjured red port and brown stout, in favour Of several breweries on the Continent, and especially in Germany. These breweries are deeply seated in the bowels of the Earth, and the art and mystery Of their brew ings are far beyond the sight and cognizance Of man. Whether cocculus Indicus, logwood, sloe-juice, or opium enter into their gigantic vats and boiling cauldrons, it is hard to say; but, however manufactured, they are thrown up on the surface of our globe, pro bono publico - greatly to the detriment of doctors, druggists, and apothecaries, in this and in many other countries. The subterranean distilleries are conducted on the homoeopathic prin ciple - viz. That of employing the minutest quantities of active materials - probably in order to do the least possible harm. They have many and great advantages over the homoeopathic laboratories. They diffuse their ingredients through such immense potions Of water, that, to get at a few grains of the former, we are obliged to ingurgitate some quarts of the latter. Now the mere mechanical flow of such prodigious doses of fluid through the various outlets - the bowels, kidneys, skin, &c. Must sweep away morbid secretions, and contribute to the breaking down of Obstrue tions in different organs, independently of the medicinal agents that are diffused through the mass Of liquids in the greatest possible state of divi sion and solution - circumstances which enable them to permeate and penetrate through innumerable capillary tubes and complicated glandular apparatuses, where grosser materials could never reach. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.