A descriptive, historical, chemical and therapeutical analysis of the Avon sulphur springs, Livingston County, N.Y : with directions for their use / by Samuel Salisbury.

  • Salisbury, Samuel, 1806-1850.
Date:
1845
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Credit: A descriptive, historical, chemical and therapeutical analysis of the Avon sulphur springs, Livingston County, N.Y : with directions for their use / by Samuel Salisbury. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    stages of inflammation, followed either by effusion, suppuration, deposition or desqua- mation. Any agent or alterative which re- stores the skin to a healthy condition must do so, by increasing its power of discharg- ing its functions of exhalation or elimination, and of absorption. Now this cutaneous envelope of the body is continuous with the mucous membranes which line the nose and mouth, and the respiratory organs, as well' as those organs which serve for the diges- tion of solid and liquid alimentarv substan- ces. Hence the reason why a disordered condition of the skin may produce a corres- ponding derangement of the lungs or diges- tive organs, and, conversely, a deranged state of the lungs or digestive organs may produce a disease of the skin. An increas- ed secretion from the mucous men)branes being the usual effect of the waters, a simi- lar effect will ordinarily be transmitted to the skin. As a striking example of their alterative influence on the cutaneous surface, says Dr. Francis,^ Imay mention the case of an individual, now in the twenty second year of his age, incommoded by congenital icthyosis; and whom I recommended to re- pair to these springs last season. The free use of these waters, internally and by bath- * Avoa Mineral Waters, New York, 1833.