Treatise on the use of the mineral waters of Homburg / by Frederick Muller ; translated from the 7th German edition by C. Murphy Mortimer.

Date:
1859
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Credit: Treatise on the use of the mineral waters of Homburg / by Frederick Muller ; translated from the 7th German edition by C. Murphy Mortimer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    insinuate. Moreover, llie results of its use, particu- larly since the season of 1846 (consequently in its present state) have proved, that though milder and less energetic than the other springs, it is still highly efficacious and salutary, when its use is steadily per- severed in. With very irritable persons suffering from hemor- rhoids, particularly such as are afflicted with hemor- rhoidal tumours, its waters have agreed bettet than those of the Elisabeth-Brunnen, whose action has often in such cases been too violent. Also, when abdominal plethora and its consequences are complicated with affection of the chest, chronic catarrh, asthma etc., this spring has proved almdst as efficacious as in its former state, when the ana- lysis exhibited more salts and less iron.