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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    those cold waters whose composition will Ttdmit of it, are also sold in bottles. Not all will admit of bottling; the different taste and effects of many of the waters of the natural springs, after being a short time in bottle, are notorious. But by taking certain precautions, it is in many instances possible to produce an artificial water that shall bear bottling and transportation far better than the natural. This is a matter of common experience in Europe with regard to several, and especially to Selters water, of which one million two hundred thousand flasks are annually sold by the Duke of Nassau direct from the springs. Probably a much larger quantity is sold direct from the laboratory; for few persons would prefer the genuine—half-rotten or flat—to the artificial, fresh and sparkling. Says Dr. Granville: * The introduction of artificial mineral waters into the practice of medicine, as prepared by Struve, has now received the sanction of several years' experience. In speaking of that scientific physi- cian and chemist, in my account of the capital of Saxo- ny, which he inhabits, I stated, in 1828, that much was to be expected from the result of his labors,—the benefit of which was about to be extended to England, by the formation of an establishment at Brighton, which has since received the name of 'The German Spa.' The re- alization of those anticipations has been most complete : and nothing could be more satisfactory than the investi- gation of the value and importance of that establish- ment, which took place before the Privy Council in No- vember, 183G; when Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brough- am, who had examined the writer of these pages at great —*The Spas of Germany. By A. B. Granville, M. D., F. R. S., Knight of the Order of the Crown of Wurtemberg and of the Royal Order of St. Michael of Bavaria ; member of the principal literary and scientific societies in Europe; author of St. Petcrsburgh, &c, &c.