A treatise on the various modes of bathing : with the analyses of the mineral springs of Scarborough, and all their medicinal uses. Part second.

  • Alexander, William.
Date:
1833
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Credit: A treatise on the various modes of bathing : with the analyses of the mineral springs of Scarborough, and all their medicinal uses. Part second. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    established, will remove the only argument which seemed a priori to be entitled to any weight. The effects of mineral waters as well as of many classes of medicines, are not always obvious to the senses, but it by no means neces- sarily follows, that they are not executing some good purposes, any more than that the heart is not beating or our food digesting, because they do so imperceptibly. But among the salts possessed of sensible effects, one fami- liar example will be furnished, in evidence that saline matters when largely dissolved in water have their properties greatly augmented by dilution, and if this fact be admitted in one, two, or three salts, and it is indisputable, why not extend the principle to all, although in lacking perhaps sensible qualities in many cases it cannot be made manifest. By analogy however, it must be inferred ; and will be found in accordance with their acknowled- ged absorption and action on the blood as already explained. If one ounce of Epsom salts be dissolved in one ounce and a half of