Some remarks on medicinal mineral waters, natural and artificial : their efficacy in the treatment of chronic diseases, and rules for their employment, especially those of Carlsbad, Ems, Kissingen, Marienbad, Pyrmont, Pullna, Seidschutz, and Heilbrunn / by S. Hanbury Smith.

  • Smith, Samuel Hanbury, 1810-1894.
Date:
1855
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    tod that during their use encysted tumors have disappeared, nasal polypi have spontaneously fallen off, that bony promin- ences diminish, and that fractured bones becomes softened at the point of the fracture. Some similar effects have also been observed from the use of the artificial Carlsbad waters in Strave's establishment. Finally, Dr. A. Vetter, well known in Europe as an author on these subjects in his Allgemeines Brunnen and Badebucb, Berlin, 1840, observes, If further proof is desired that the powerful effects of the Carlsbad waters, depend on the mode in which their elements are combined, we cite the perfectly analogous effects produced by the factitious waters of Struve. EMS. Of the waters of Ems, says Dr. Lee in his Baths of Ger- many, The resident practitioners also speak highly of the ef- fects of these waters in cases of disordered digestive func- tions, with torpor of the liver; and there is no doubt, that in several of these cases, attended with heartburn, acidity, and other symptoms of a vitiated state of the secretions, they are calculated to be of considerable benefit,—they are also well adapted to some deranged states of the health, occurring in women and children, without any particular organ appearing to be the seat of disease. Dr. Diel, who was bath physician at Ems, for upwards of thirty years, strongly recommended the waters in congested states of the abdominal circulation, with its consequences hemorrhoidal affections, etc., and also in dysmenorrhoea, and some other diseases peculiar to females. The Ems waters would be likely to be of great service in irritation of the urinary passages, with deposit of lithic acid, or other gravel; especially where there exists a gouty or calcu- lous diathesis, or when combined with a deranged state of stomach. But it is in diseases of the respiratory organs that Ems has acquired the highest reputation; patients Avith these dis- ss forming annually a large proportion of its visitors, some of them in such an advanced state of disease as to be little