Karlsbad, 8 September 1875 

Germania 
Dear Frep, 

You will doubtless have already heard from Tussy that my first 
letter to her, which I handed in personally at the main post office 
here on 18 August in the presence of Dr Gans junior, has been 
intercepted, doubtless by the Prussian postal authorities. The 
subsequent ones have arrived; the latest, which I sent her last 
week, appears to have shared the fate of the first, for I should 
otherwise surely have had an answer from her.’ 

This time I’m really getting on splendidly with the cure; with 
rare exceptions good nights, too. But I am also, or so my 

numerous doctor friends say, Karlsbad’s model guest. From time 
to time these gentlemen have been at pains to lead me away from 
the path of ‘salvation’* on the pretext ‘praesente medico’,” etc., but 
their attempts have failed. 

As a second-year patient I have been promoted in the hierarchy 
of the springs. Last year my sources of supply were Theresien- 
brunn (41° R), Marktbrunn (39°) and Mühlbrunn (43.6°), while I 
only took a glass of Sprudel twice. This year, from the second week 
on, they have been Felsenquelle (one glass a day) (45° R), 
Bernardsbrunn (53.8°) (two glasses) and Sprudel (two glasses) 
59°-60° R, making five glasses of hot every morning, on top of which 
come one cold Schlossbrunn on rising and one at bedtime. 

According to Prof. Ferdinand Ragsky’s analysis, Sprudel water 
consists of: 

In 16 ounces=7680 g. 

Sulphate of potash .......... cece eeeeeeee 1.2564 
Sulphate of soda oo... cece eeeeeeeeteees 18.2160 
Chloride of sodium ..........cccccccccceeseseeeseeeees 7.9156 
Carbonate of S0da ..........ecccsseseccccteeeeereneeees 10.4593 
Carbonate of lime ........ ccc ccccceseeeseesseeeneees 2.2870 
Carbonate of Magnesia ........... cece 0.9523 
Carbonate of strontium ...........:..ccceeeeees 0.0061 
0.0215 

0.0046 

0.0030 

0.0015 

0.0276 

0.5590 

41.7099 

5.8670 

Among the fellows calling for the celebration of Sedan Day’ 
here was a businessman from Barmen, Gustav Köttgen— might he 
be connected with the old fool ''*? 

You had better watch out: Karl Grün is competing with you. He 
is bringing out a work on natural philosophy next spring and has 
already given a foretaste of it in the Berlin Wage which Weiss has 
sent me from Berlin.'!” 

a ‘Heil’ in the original, meaning ‘salvation’ and ‘treatment’. - > Here: that doctors 
were in attendance. 

I shall be leaving here on Saturday,’ initially for Prague, having 
got a letter from there today from Oppenheim.” From Prague I 
shall proceed via Frankfurt. 

Dr Fleckles has just arrived and is taking me out for a meal. So 
my long letter has come to naught; moreover Dr Fleckles says it is 
unsuited to the cure. Kindest regards to Madame Lizzy. 

Your 
Moor