Carlsbad : a medico-practical guide / by Emil Kleen.

  • Kleen, Emil, 1847-1923.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Carlsbad : a medico-practical guide / by Emil Kleen. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CARLSBAD'S THERAPEUTIC RESOURCES. These resources are of many kinds, and, not- withstanding ray full acknowledgment of the ex- cellent qualities of the alkaline-saline waters, it is less on account of my own views than from a cer- tain concession to prevailing opinion that I, among all these resources, name first the celebrated Carlsbad-water. This water is practically a warm solution of sul- phate of soda, bicarbonate of soda, and chloride of sodium,' and contains besides a certain quantity 1 The same salts, though in different and less harmonious proportions, are found in the waters of Marienbad, Tarasp, and some few other less known European waters. Among the American waters (in Colorado and other places) which some- times are given out to be similar to the Carlsbad-water, none can in justice be even compared to it. The unquestionably valuable Saratoga waters lack the sulphate of soda. As this little work goes to the press, I find, to my amazement, in a book on Saratoga of some scientific pretensions, a remark that the absence of sulphate of soda is a rather indifferent matter, and as a reason for this original opinion is given the (perfectly cor- rect) statement that the pure sulphate of soda has long since ceased to be used. Why has it ceased to be used ? Because it has been substituted by the much-used crystallized Carls- bad-salt, the main bulk of the solid constituents of which is sulphate of soda.