A brief notice of a portion of a work by William Burke, entitled "The mineral springs of western Virginia" : with preliminary remarks on the relative virtues of the saline and gaseous contents of the white sulphur water / by John J. Moorman.

  • Moorman, J. J. (John Jennings), 1802-1885.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A brief notice of a portion of a work by William Burke, entitled "The mineral springs of western Virginia" : with preliminary remarks on the relative virtues of the saline and gaseous contents of the white sulphur water / by John J. Moorman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTER* On the relative virtues of the Saline and Gaseous contents of the White Sulphur Water. Speculation has existed as to the relative efficacy of the different component parts of the White Sul- phur Water in the cure of disease, and while some have supposed that its gaseous contents are essential to its sanative virtues, others, and we think the best informed observers, attribute its medicinal virtues mainly to its solid or saline contents. To the lat- ter opinion the able Professor of Natural Philosophy in the University of Virginia, who has carefully ex- amined the water, and other distinguished chemists and physicians, decidedly incline. It certainly is a question of no little interest to the valetudinarian, whether he should use this water * This Chapter is a part of a work in manuscript, on the Mineral Springs of Virginia,' which has been lying by us for sometime nearly ready for the press, and which would have been published before this period, but for our desire to procure accurate drawings of some of the more celebrated watering places, and to obtain more specific information in relation to the compo- sition and medical effects of some of the mineral waters in Eastern Virginia. 1*