A German physician recommending to a gouty English patient that he take the waters at various spa resorts in Germany and Bohemia. Wood engraving after R. Cleaver.

Dialogue includes: Eminent German specialist. "Vat vaters 'ave you been in ze 'abit of taking?" English gouty patient. "Water! Haven't touched a drop, except with my tea, for the last thirty years!" [Upon which a mild course of Homburg, Kissingen, Marienbad, and Karlsbad is at once prescribed.