Exportation of the Carlsbad mineral-waters, their effects upon the human frame, their application and manner of use / by Dr. Loeschner.

  • Loeschner, J. (Professor)
Date:
1847
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    22 ° (49 ° F.); thus this supposition reduces itself to a gross contradiction, which finds in the former greater difference no cause sufficient to produce chymical decomposition, but main¬ tains that the latter and lesser difference is threatened therewith. It will require some years of practical experience in order at length to dispel this error also, which is based upon nothing whatever else than the old spirit of mysticism. If we now turn our attention to the influence of the Carls¬ bad thermal springs upon the human organism, we find it to result chiefly from their chymical elements, the mutual relations of these to one another, and from their high temperature. Want of space forbids us here to enter into details; those however who would wish to be more minutely instructed in the effects and in the manner of operation of the Carlsbad waters, we re¬ fer to Hlawaczek’s, Wagner’s, and other works, or to Loesch- ner’s treatise entitled, ,,Healing effects of the Carlsbad Waters-4 in the Prague Quarterly Journal of Practical Medicine (XIV vol.) in which treatise they are explained in the clearest and most circumstantial manner possible according to the present advan¬ ced state of medicine. The following explanation may here be sufficient. The Carlsbad thermal springs produce their effects neither by pri¬ mary and special operation alone upon the ganglious nervous sys¬ tem, nor by an exclusive influence upon the system of the blood¬ vessels, but the seat of their operation is — assimilation ; and this is rendered so powerful especially by the very high tem¬ perature of the springs, which alone makes it comprehensible, why the chymical elements of these waters produce a so sear¬ ching and permanent effect. The several Carlsbad springs con¬ tain, in every 16 ounces, from 39 to 44 grains of solid parts, at a temperature varying from 33° to59°R. (105° to 165° F.); we will therefore take the Sprudel as the type of all the springs of Carlsbad, and as determining for us the proportions of the rest. In 16 oz. or 1 lb. of water of this spring are found nearly 20 grains of sulfate of soda, 10 grs. of carbonate of soda, 8 grs. of muriate of soda, more than 2 grs. of carbonate of lime, 1 gr. of carbonate of magnesia, and a small quantity of protoxyd of iron, besides minute portions of phosphates, iodine and brome, a moderate quantity (above 3 grs) of carbonic acid, and some¬ what nitrogen, at a temperature of 59° R. (165° F.). Now if we estimate every 3 glasses, such as are usually drunk, ad 1 lb. of water, and the usual number of glasses drunk at 12, con¬ sequently altogether 4 lbs. of water; then the patient takes within about two hours and a half, for a period of 24 hours, in solid and volatile parts of the Carlsbad Sprudel spring, 80