The mineral waters of Vichy, and the diseases on which they are indicated : followed by a sketch of some of the principal excursions in the environs / by C.E. Cormack.

  • Cormack, C. E.
Date:
1887
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The mineral waters of Vichy, and the diseases on which they are indicated : followed by a sketch of some of the principal excursions in the environs / by C.E. Cormack. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. Year by year the number of visitors frequenting this station steadily increases, and while almost every nationality is annually represented in a larger propor- tion, there is one exception to the general rule, the number of English tends to decrease and is consider- ably less than it was ten years ago. Why it should be so, it is hard to say, considering the great value of its thermal springs in the treatment of numerous diseases to which our countrymen are particularly exposed, and the facilities for making the journey thither. It has been suggested to me, that while a great number of French works have been written upon these Waters, there are comparatively few English ones on the same subject, and that if the English were able to consult a work in their own tongue, written in a popular style, with a minimum of scientific terms, containing a digest of what some of the greatest authorities have written upon the Yichy Waters, it could not fail to draw the attention of our countrymen to what most of them certainly ignore, the great efficacy of these Waters in the treatment of a number of complaints which we describe.