Medicinal mineral waters, natural and artificial : their efficacy in the treatment of chronic diseases, and rules for their employment : especially those of Carlsbad, Ems, Vichy, Kissingen, Marienbad, Pyrmont, Egra, Pullna, Seidshutz, and Heilbrunn / by S. Hanbury Smith.

  • Smith, Samuel Hanbury, 1810-1894.
Date:
1856
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Credit: Medicinal mineral waters, natural and artificial : their efficacy in the treatment of chronic diseases, and rules for their employment : especially those of Carlsbad, Ems, Vichy, Kissingen, Marienbad, Pyrmont, Egra, Pullna, Seidshutz, and Heilbrunn / by S. Hanbury Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bowels and general torpor and plethora of the system. 2. The Carlsbad waters have the effect of freeing the blood of acrimonious particles, either by neutralizing and discharging them out of the body, or by causing a metastasis and derivation of them to the joints or to the skin. Hence in various forms of internal gout and rheumatism, they are singularly useful; the disease being often drawn from the internal viscus which may happen to be effected to some outward part. 3. The Carlsbad waters cleanse the urinary passages of calculous deposits. And lastly, they often effect a cure in a number of anomalous diseases, whose causes are not known, and to Which indeed a name cannot be given; as, for example, loss of power and feeling in the limbs, a tendency to syncope followed by cramps, some cases of epilepsy and asthma ; also in certain disturbances of the mental func- tions. In these cases, the Carlsbad waters seem to act as an alterative. The venerable Hufeland published in 1815, a treatise on the chief medicinal springs in Germany. He recom- mends the use of the Carlsbad waters in cases of con- stipation, tympanites, incipient disorganization of the stomach and bowels and other abdominal viscera, more especially of the liver, of chronic jaundice, of congestion of the mesenteric and portal veins; also in nervous ail- ments, as amaurosis, hypochondriasis, and in various forms of calculous disease. He also strongly recommends them in most of the forms of gout. The Carlsbad wa- ters, in addition to their purgative qualities, are pos-* sessed of remarkable alterative powers, so that often they effect quite a change in the state of the blood and other fluids of the body, depriving them of all acri- monious and hurtful particles, and restoring them to 8