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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    combining together two kinds of mineral water. If any one will refer to the analysis of an efficient mineral spring, as Carlsbad, he will find a quite sufficient number of medicinal substances, for all practical purposes, without the necessity of adding as many more by the admixture of a dif- ferent kind of water; though it is true that by this means the activity of the compound upon particular organs may be increased. This, how- ever, is not what is usually required in a course of mineral waters, and the practice of adminis- tering the artificial ones in such a manner as to produce sensible effects at the time, has oc- casioned some of their advocates to say that they are even more active than the natural springs; but if merely active effects upon particular organs be required, a mixture from a druggist's would answer the purpose just as well: and as Osann has justly remarked, in reply to such as advocate the superior activity of artificial waters, Though it may prove the power of the artificial waters, it speaks directly against the identity of their ac- tion with natural ones. Some of the natural springs are better adapted for imitation than others. The waters of Pullna and Saidschutz, which can scarcely be * Darstellungderbekannten Heilquellen,&c. Berlin, 1840. O