An account of the most frequented watering places on the continent and of the medicinal application of their mineral springs, with tables of analysis, and an appendix on English mineral waters / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1836
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Credit: An account of the most frequented watering places on the continent and of the medicinal application of their mineral springs, with tables of analysis, and an appendix on English mineral waters / by Edwin Lee. 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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    to the formation of lithic acid, bronchial irritation not of an inflammatory nature, and some cu- taneous affections, — are among the complaints most likely to be removed by these springs. A Pint of Water from the Ursp7'ung contains, according to Kastner, Muriate of Soda Grains. - 17-500 Muriate of Lime - - 1-500 Muriate of Magnesia - - 0-500 Sulphate of Lime - - 2-750 Carbonate of Iron - 0-111 22-361 Carbonic Acid Gas 0-333 parts of a cubic inch. GASTEIN, Or Gasteiner Wildbad, is situate twelve German miles south-v^rest of Salzburg, at an elevation of near 3000 feet above the level of the sea, in a highly romantic and secluded spot among the mountains. The village consists of about twenty houses, mostly of wood, built on a steep acclivity by the side of the torrent Acha, and is surrounded by lofty snow-tipped mountains. Notwithstanding its small size and indifferent accommodation, it is