text:  At this famous Prussian watering-place Mr Waterton found much to move his bile not only in the sight of ladies risking their fortunes at the public gaming-tables authorised and protected by government but in the folly of the valetudinarians who perversely counteract the beneficial effects of the waters by "resorting to the _salle-a-manger_ and there partaking of all the luxuries from the cornucopia of Epicurus Bacchus and Ceres