A practical treatise on the medical properties of the Aix-la-Chapelle hot sulphureous waters and the mode of their employment / by L. Wetzlar.

  • Wetzlar, Lazarus, 1810-1880.
Date:
1862
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    to be considered as injurious. Not wishing to enter into forced theories, I have not tried to explain their mode of action. Latterly several German balneologists have laid great stress upon analyses of the urine as a means of ascertaining the mode of action of mineral waters; and, indeed, if there existed at any watering place a large hospital for poor bathers, in which analyses of urine could be made on a great scale on patients being in the meanwhile under constant and attentive control, medical sience might gain by such researches. But I do not think that an analysis made on the urine of two or three individuals, as it is usually the case, can be of much service in clearing up the mystery in which the mode of action of mineral waters is enveloped. I have omitted adding a chapter on the regimen to be observed during a course of waters. As the regimen of the visitors of the springs must be suited to the ailment, the constitution and the habits of the patients, 1 should have been obliged to give nearly a complete treatise of general dietetics, if 1 did not choose to treat this subject superficially. But, as the regimen of patients who are taking the waters cannot be founded on other principles than those which are received in general dietetics, I have considered the addition of such a chapter unnecessary. I must claim the indulgence of the reader, if when perusing this treatise he should meet, here