The physiology and therapeutics of the Harrogate waters, baths, and climate applied to the treatment of chronic disease / by William Bain and Wilfrid Edgecombe.

  • Bain, William.
Date:
1905
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Credit: The physiology and therapeutics of the Harrogate waters, baths, and climate applied to the treatment of chronic disease / by William Bain and Wilfrid Edgecombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    should show such wide differences in character and should maintain their individual compositions approxi- mately constant year after year. Geologically, this is ascribed to the fact that the underlying strata are here tUted to the surface and the springs, arising from un- known depths, gain exit between layers which are impervious. About sixteen of these waters are used internally, the remainder being devoted to bathing purposes. In their natural state the waters are athermal, but are heated artificially by an ingenious apparatus called a therma, which has been successfully designed with the object of raising the temperature of the solution without any of its ingredients being deposited. Each water is drawn through a hot and cold tap so that a mixture from the two may be dispensed, the amount from each tap varying according to the temperature required. Surveying the waters collectively, the first prominent feature is the presence of a saline constituent more or less common to all, though varying within very wide limits in different waters. A second feature next in prominence is the presence, in addition to the salines, of other compounds, either of sulphur or iron, each appear- ing practically to the exclusion of the other. These characteristics provide a convenient means of classification of the waters into two groups, saline-sulphur and saline- chalybeate respectively, as shown in the following table, in which the subdivision into strong, medium, or mild is determined by the amount of total solids present in each water, the quantities being expressed in grains per gallon.