Medical tracts for the times / by James Craig and William Maule.

  • Craig, J. (James)
Date:
1886
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Credit: Medical tracts for the times / by James Craig and William Maule. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    The result is this. I am a stone less in weight, I am six inches less in girth, my gouty 'heirlooms,' in the shape of ' hereditary deposits,' have disappeared, my flatulent indigestion has vanished, my mental and bodily activity have doubled; I spoke on Thursday for an hour with less effort than I did in December for ten minutes, I sleep for seven hours without moving, I can wear gloves and shoes a size smaller, I have lost my tendency to catch cold, my muscles are daily hardening, my kidneys are doing their duty nobly, my figure is altering so rapidly that my tailor is in despair, but I am triumphant. Although no reader of these notes is likely to follow the example of an invalid I recently heard of, who, in order to get full value for his money, drank every morning a tumblerful of each spring at a well-known health resort, where, I believe, there are five different kinds of mineral water, still, a word of warning against the drinking of mineral waters without first consulting a physcian may not be amiss, especially as some people have the idea that, as these waters are not dispensed by a pharmaceutical chemist, they are comparatively harmless. This is a great mistake, serious consequences frequently following their injudicious use. The medicinal employment of pure water, or of a mineral water, requires as accurate and extensive a knowledge of physiology and pathology as the use of any drug in the pharmacopoeia. JAMES CRAIG.