The mineral waters and health resorts of Europe : treatment of chronic diseases by spas and climates, with hints as to the simultaneous employment of various physical and dietetic methods / being a rev. and enl. ed. of "The spas and mineral waters of Europe' by Hermann Weber ... and F. Parkes Weber ... With a map.

  • Weber, Hermann, 1823-1918.
Date:
1898
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    aesthetic individuals. No energetic spa treatment is suitable to such invalids, but the general management may be beneficially assisted by the simple thermal waters (Chapter YI.), especially those in elevated situa- tions ; sometimes by a very gentle use of the muriated waters (Chapter YII.) or the muriated alkaline waters (Chapter IX.), followed by a long stay at mountain health resorts (see Chaj)ter XYIII., Groups I. and II.). In addition to those kinds of nervous dyspepsia which are due to an individual congenital weakness or gastric hypersesthesia, and which have just been mentioned, there are other kinds excited by overwork, worry, &c. The most troublesome cases occur in persons of advanced years, as one of the results of nervous exhaustion from long-continued brain work and insufficient sleep. Such cases are often benefited by mental rest at simple thermal spas, such as Wildbad-Gastein, Wildbad in Wiirtemberg, Schlangenbad, Plombieres, and Eagatz. The spas of higher elevation are generally preferable. Mere climatic health resorts of moderate elevation are often equally useful. In atonic dyspepsia, when catarrh and irritability are not apparent, very slight courses at common salt or chalybeate spas, and residence in tonic climates are often successful. Seaside locaHties, combined or not with sea bathing, are likely to give good results. Dyspepsia alcoholica is the result of a specific catarrh of the mucous membrane of the digestive system, which requires above all things abstinence from its cause, namely, alcoholic beverages, or, at all events, the greatest moderation in their use. The catarrh itself and the complications, if this primary condition is fulfilled, are ameliorated and gradually cured, according to indivi- dual indications, by sulphated alkaline (Chapter X.), muriated alkaline (Chapter IX.), or muriated (Chapter YII.) waters, followed by residence at moderate elevations (Chapter XYIII., Group II.). We shall later on return to the subject of chronic gastric catarrh. For cases