On the warm saline springs of Nauheim : their action on the healthy and morbid organism and their employment in scrophulous, rheumatic and uterine diseases / by F.W. Beneke ... translated and abridged from the German by S. Sutro.

  • Beneke, F. W. (Friedrich Wilhelm), 1824-1882.
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[1860]
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Credit: On the warm saline springs of Nauheim : their action on the healthy and morbid organism and their employment in scrophulous, rheumatic and uterine diseases / by F.W. Beneke ... translated and abridged from the German by S. Sutro. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE OF THE AUTHOR. The following pages form the abstract of a work, I have lately published in Germany on the saline springs of Nauheim, a village situated near Frankfort o/M., on the Main-Weser railroad. The abstract, written by Dr. Sutro, contains and explains so clearly all the principal results of my investigations on the effects of the sources, that I am greatly indebted to him for the skilful performance of his task, and that it will be scarcely necessary for the reader, to refer to the original German work. Those, however, who wish to acquire a more accurate insight into the physiolo- gical and chemical researches, which I have instituted on the effects of the Nauheim springs on the healthy organism, must, of course, avail themselves of the original work. I cannot deny, that I lay a great stress upon investigations of this kind, as they are indispensably necessary for a more accurate and scientific knowledge of the effects of the German Spas, than has been available hitherto. — Experience in medical questions ranks first; but the time has arrived, when experience ought to have a phy- siological foundation, else it will no longer satisfy alone the scien- tifical physician. Thus I may hope, that my English colleagues will find in the following pages some satisfaction, as I have en- deavoured to base facts of experience upon physiological study, and I am happy to state, that the harmony of both of them is as complete, as possible.