Memoir concerning the acidulous, gaseous, bicarbonated, sodaic waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette.

Date:
1866
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Credit: Memoir concerning the acidulous, gaseous, bicarbonated, sodaic waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    canal following' tlie inflammation of the walls of that canal, or else] recog-nizing for cause the presence of one or several calculi, the 1 waters of Vals are remarkably efficacious. | The chronic liver complaints, as well as those of all the other j organs, are functional, that is to say without any appreciable] material or organic hurt, that is to say with an alteration of! substance. In general, it is in the functional wounds that the! waters of Vals are most successful. If there remain any traces of irritation in the liver and towards the dig-estive organs, the water of St, Jean is the most appropriate; if, on the contrary, the phlegmasic state is entirely extinct, the springs containing- more minerals, —Pr6cieuse, Magdeleiue, — will succeed far better, and will be employed preferably. It will be the same in cases of swellings often enormous in the secretory organ of the bile, in considerable splenites, etc., etc. This success will also take place, if there exists an abdominal plethory more or less marked. In fact, the waters being freely alkaline are an excellent hepatic remedy, and it is not without reason, as observed very judiciously by Messrs. Petrequin and Soc- quet, that practical experience gives them the quality of chologues. Physiology teaches us that almost all alkahne waters taken as drinks go through the liver. It is now well known, after the eminent experiments of Panizza and those of Mr. Chatin, that the absorption of soluble salts, taken as a drink, takes place, at least for the most part, by the veins of the stomach and the teres intes- tine, which, meeting with the radicles of the vena porta, transmit to the liver the totahty of the blood which they contain and of the substances which have been introduced into it. Also one of the first effects of the water of those springs St. .lean, Precieuse, Magde- leine, taken as a drink ought to be and really is an action bearing directly on the liver, as it would be difficult to admit that the quantity of water and mineral substances going through that organ in a short space of time, would remain without any influence on the formation of bile. GALL STONES. The hepatic calculous colic is one of the complaint-s in which the -waters of Vals can be the most surely employed. A complete cure