Remarks on the employment of the waters of Kreuznach / by E. H. Sieveking.

  • Sieveking, Edward H. (Edward Henry), 1816-1904.
Date:
1853
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Credit: Remarks on the employment of the waters of Kreuznach / by E. H. Sieveking. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    from them by the ordinary process of evaporation; this leaves behind it a residue known as bittern or mother ley. Both the water in its native state and the residuary matter are employed for medicinal purposes; but it is only the former which is used both for external and internal ad- ministration ; the latter is almost exclusively employed, diluted, as an external remedy. There are several springs, which vary somewhat in composition and temperature; they all possess a temperature peculiar to themselves, and demonstrating the volcanic character of the soil; and all contain chloride of sodium as the main constituent, with other chlorides and compounds of iodine and bromine.* The spring known as the Elisabeth Quelle is the most in request for medicinal purposes, as the most powerful. Its temperature is 55° Fahr. throughout the year; the fresh drawn water is perfectly clear and transparent, with a slightly yellowish tinge, and of a salt, bitterish taste; a few bubbles of carbonic acid gas are visible; the water soon be- comes dull; numerous small brownish flocculi form and are precipitated, and do not disappear for several days, until the precipitate is completed. The analysis of this water by Bauer, as given in Professor Osann’s great balneological work, shows sixteen ounces of the water to contain above ninety grains of mineral constituents, distributed in the following manner: — Chloride of sodium - 72.922 Chloride of potassium - - 0.971 Chloride of lithium - 0.075 Chloride of calcium - 13.276 Chloride of magnesium - 0.251 Bromide of sodium - 0.307 Iodide of sodium - 0.003 Carbonate of magnesia 1.351 Carbonate of strontia - - 0.683 Carbonate of baryta - 0.299 Carbonate of iron - 0.199 Carbonate of manganese - 0.009 Alumina - 0.021 Silica - - 0.313 90.686 The specific gravity of the water is 1,004. * To those interested in the topographical and medical history of the German-watering-places, we can recommend tho Lectures on the Mineral Waters of Kreuznach, by Dr. Sutro, and published by Parker in 16£>1, as con- taining a large amount of information.