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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    Skeleton Analysis by Hayton Davis in 1904. Specific gravity 1002;28 Total solids 196 00 103-87 •68 Chlorine Sulphur This water is generally used to supplement or modify the action of some other water. It may be given either alone, or mixed with another water; for example, equal quantities of the Magnesia and the Crescent Saline. It is usually taken two or three times a day, in addition to the early morning draught of an aperient water. Pharmacology.—The dose varies from 6 ounces to a pint. The chief characteristic of this water is its stimulating effect on the kidneys. It is a powerful refrigerant diuretic, an effect which is probably in great measure due to the potassium salts it contains, for it is known that the excretion of these salts is accompanied by an increased secretion of urine. It has, as a rule, no aperient action. The effect on the blood is merely one of dilution, no change taking placein the worth of the corpuscle.the haemo- globin and corpuscles falUng in equal proportions. The uric acid is very slightly diminished, but the urea is unaffected. Table VII.—Subject B. Magnesia Water. Previous averages, -546, 35-768, 1032. Date. Uric Acid, grms. Urea, grms. Quantity, c.c. Eemarks. July 5 » 6 „ 7 » 8 •554 •483 •463 •591 Aver 40-09 32- 64 36-58 33- 6 ages, -522, 2110 1280 1557 1120 35^7, 1516 Magnesia water » J) 1