The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden.

  • Madden, Thomas More, 1838-1902.
Date:
1888
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Credit: The principal health-resorts of Europe and Africa for the treatment of chronic diseases / by Thomas More Madden. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Nfitres in Savoy, and Leuk in Switzerland, were simul- taneously affected. Chaly'beate Waters may be divided into simple and saline ferruginous springs. The former of which, Orezza in Corsica ; Pyrmont, Driburg, Schwalbach, and Briickenau, in Germany ; Auteuil and Passy within the fortifications of Paris; and Spa in Belgium, are examples, contain little else than the carbonate of the protoxide of iron, dissolved in water more or less highly charged with carbonic acid, and are therefore not only tonic but stimulant in their effects, excit- ing the nervous, circulating, and digestive functions, as w^ell as increasing the red corpuscles and fibrine of the blood. The saline chalybeates, which generally contain some of the soluble salts of soda, together with the iron, are chiefly employed in similar cases to the saline springs when marked with debility, and in anaemia, complicated with abdominal disease, whether resulting from long residence in tropical climates, or from dietetic errors. Amongst these are the Stahlbrunneu of Homburg, Booklet in Bavaria, Franzensbad in Bohemia, Cronthal and Kippoldsau in Germany, Saratoga in the State of New York, Tunbridge Wells, Scarborough, and Cheltenham in England. Sulphurous Springs are those whose medicinal constitutents are sulphuretted hydrogen gas and the sulphurets of sodium or potassium. Warm sulphurous waters are invariably stimulant in their effects on the nervous, as well as on the vascular systems. The principal sources of this class are Aix-la-Chapelle, Aix-les-Bains, Baden in Switzerland, Baden near Vienna, Burtscheid, Schinznach, Teplitz, and Warm- brunn in Germany, Penticosa in Aragon, Carratraca, on the road from Malaga to Ptonda, in Andalusia, and Caldas da Eainha in Portugal. The Pyrenean mineral springs nearly all belong to the same division of thermal waters.