Bath, Contrexéville and the lime sulphated waters : with their use in medicine / by John Macpherson.

  • Macpherson, John, 1817-1890.
Date:
1886
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Credit: Bath, Contrexéville and the lime sulphated waters : with their use in medicine / by John Macpherson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CHAPTER III. “No test of mineral waters can be found, except the power which they exercise in curing diseases. By their fruits you shall know their nature and qualities.”—Pabacelsus. The accompanying table will show sufficiently the main constituents of some of the chief sulphated waters. The analyses are taken as far as possible from the most recent sources, such as Durand-Fardel, and are accurate enough for our purpose of giving a comparative view of these waters. Fortunately we are not obliged to complicate the matter, by introducing minimal quantities found in some of these waters, of litliia, or of bromine and iodine, or even of arsenic (of which there may be a trace in the waters of B. Bi- gorre), both because their amount in these waters is so minute, and as most writers are agreed, because they do not occur in any waters, certainly not in these, in what may be called medicinal amount. We need not trouble ourselves much about the amount of car- bonic acid, which is never very great, or the large amount of nitrogen which is present in some of these waters. We have purposely excluded sulphated waters having any amount of hydro-sulphuric acid, though Baden has a very little. c 2