The mineral springs of England, and their curative efficacy : with remarks on bathing, and on artificial mineral waters / Edwin Lee.

Date:
1841
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Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    water of the Muhl and Neubrunnen, his physi- cian was astonished to find that he had a de- cided attack of jaundice, the eyes being of a dark yellow colour, and was apprehensive of the existence of serious disease of the liver; but the patient, smiling, allayed his fears by in- forming him, that on account of this very cir- cumstance, he had a greater degree of confidence in the artificial waters; as, on two former occa- sions, at an interval of several years between each, he had drank these two springs at their source in Carlsbad, and, on each occasion, on the fifth day of drinking he had been attacked with jaundice ; the attacks having subsided after three weeks' use of the water, leaving his gene- ral health much improved. This also proved to be the case on the present occasion from the use of the artificial waters. The softening of recently fractured bones, which has occurred from the use of the Carlsbad springs, has also taken place on two or three occasions during the employment of the artificial Carlsbad. One of these cases is related by Rust; the patient had some time before frac- tured his arm and forearm : in the third week of drinking the artificial Carlsbad water, the