Hints on the use of the carbonate of soda and soda water / T.J. Graham.

  • Graham, Thomas John, 1795?-1876.
Date:
1836
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    worse than the disease, inasmuch as other and better remedies could be found for the sickness and head-ache, but none could be found for them if the use of soda had been persisted in. This I have proved in my own person. So greatly was I deceived some years since by the testimony ordi- narily given by the profession in favor of soda and soda water, that I employed it freely for the relief of indigestion, and sick head-ache; it usu- ally relieved me sensibly at the time, but there followed so great an increase of stomachic weak- ness, and the attacks of head-ache were so much more frequent, that I was naturally led to search after the cause of this unexpected change, and soon found that my supposed great friend was in reality a concealed and powerful enemy. The effects of a discontinuance of this practice were satisfactory, and proved that I had not laid my suspicions in the wrong place. To this day, if from the pressure of stomachic uneasiness, (and I never do it but from the great pressure of the mo- ment,) I unadvisedly have recourse to a glass of soda water for present relief, I find its weakening influence. A very respectable chemist in London, well known at the west end of town, brought himself into a deplorable state of health, before he was aware either of the cause of his symptoms, or the extent to which they tended; at length he found that his very free use of the carbonate of soda and soda water was the real source of his malady, and