Observations on pulmonary consumption, or An essay on the Lichen islandicus, considered both as an aliment and a medicine in that disorder.

Jean Baptiste Étienne Benoît Olive Regnault

Date:: 1802

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tion, but the gratitude of those who have been relieved has been carried too far. If pleasure, dissipation, and exercise, are powerful suc- cours in the treatment of consumption, we cannot deny that all these advantages are found united at this spring, and we may, without partiality, attribute to them the relief which has been experienced by some patients. The picturesque scenery which surrounds this favoured spot, the beautiful rides in its neighbourhood, its warm and sheltered situ- ation, and the company which frequent it, must all tend to inspire the chearful passions, and harmonize the temper: but as a medicine this water cannot possess any specific virtue capable of subduing the diseased action which takes place in the lungs. Its specific gravity is only 1.00077, and it is nearly tasteless; the principal ingredients are lime, selenite and glaubers salt, and the whole contents found in a gallon do not exceed 48 grains, or about six grains in a pint, which is less than we find in most springs. Dr. Saunders in his work on Mineral Waters, speaking of the virtues of this spring in the cure of consumption, says, “ Much difference “ of I

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