Aix-les-Bains thermal treatment : the douche-massage / [Henri Forestier].

  • Forestier, Henri.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Aix-les-Bains thermal treatment : the douche-massage / [Henri Forestier]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Silica ...... Calcic sulphate .... Magnesic ,, . . . Sodic Sodic chloride .... Calcic phosphate .... Total constituents remaining in solution ..... Total fixed constituents determined Radio-activity. — A new element has been lately recognised in the thermal water of Aix-les-Bains, viz. radio-activity. This was studied by Prof. Curie and Prof. Moureu, from Paris, who found the gases “argon” and “helium” in it, and also by G. A. Blanc, a young and able Italian physicist, who detected the electric condition of the water (“ On Radio-activity of Mineral Springs,” in the ‘ Philo- sophical Magazine,’ January, igo8). “ Previousl}',’’ says Sir Herman Weber,^ “these gases ‘ argon ‘ and ‘ helium ’ were discovered by Lord Ra}'leigh, and later on by Prof. Ramsay in the waters of Bath, Buxton, etc.” According to the present scientific knowledge these gases may be considered as an emanation of the radium and as representing the radio-activity. Thanks to this some light is thrown on the unexplained wonderful effects of the 1 ‘The Mineral Waters of Europe,’ Sir Herman Weber and Parkes Weber. Grains. traces 3f 7