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Title: Hints to the sick, the lame, and the lazy, or, Passages in the life of a hydropathist
Year: 1848 (1840s)
Authors: Veteran
Subjects: Balneology Gout Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy Hydrotherapy Gout
Publisher: London : John Ollivier
Contributing Library: Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine
Digitizing Sponsor: Open Knowledge Commons and Harvard Medical School

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xpeditions,steamers hourly up and down. A very influential mem-ber of our circle fixed me down to Boppart, wherethere are, however, two water-cure establishments. I sub-mitted to this narrowing of my range, and we prepared to start,and I congratulated myself that I had done something, that Ihad hauled to windward. I had got my own way, or nearlymy own way, and that without any serious blow up with mycounsellors. There is a wonderous difficulty in differing withpeople and yet keeping on good terms with them; only placeyourself in your directors hands, and give way to all hisviews and injunctions, and all is right, your amiability andstrong good sense are acknowledged, but venture to doubtthe force of any one position, and each point of difference ofopinion becomes a field of combat; the symmetry of the wholearrangement is destroyed, and the director becomes violent. I kept on pretty good terms with my allies, althoughGerman-like, I would not yield the Rhine—den freiendeutschen Rhein.
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LAME, AND LAZY, 25 CHAP. III. How the Author sets out on his adventures— Moralizes — Pachs —Travels—Inns, Sfc.— Vetturini —Railroads—Papal anti-railroadicicisdom—Passports—M. Bourgoin—Hydropathic hopes—Anecdote—Arrival at Boppart—First view of Marienherg—The Poste—Hotel and its inmates—Sovffiet—Gallic presumption—Opinion ofmine Host which does not move me—Author goes slick away toMarienherg. When one has passed a certain time in a place, and hastaken root there, a move is a matter of serious consideration.On the Continent, one always pays ready money, or settlesweekly, and thus, there is little trouble in the financialarrangement, but there is still more to do than one cares toundertake, especially when there is any degree of valetudina-rianism to contend with. The route, the means of conveyance,the halts for rest or lionizing must be pondered, and lastly, E 26 HINTS TO THE SICK, the translation of the contents of the drawers to portmanteaus, KALE

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