On the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Vichy.

  • Vichy Waters Company.
Date:
1856
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Vichy. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ease. Even in cases where the disease is dependent upon a powerful constitutional and hereditary cause, they almost universally diminish the frequency, severity, and length of its attacks, and avert the evils which flow from it. They may not always disperse the nodes and other concretions deposited about the joints, but they generally $ remove the rigidity of the ligaments and muscular con¬ tractions. If prudence counsels the suspension of the treatment on the immediate approach, or during an attack, it has been well established that when a fit is experienced during the time the Vichy Waters are taken, the pain is less severe, and lasts a shorter time than in other paroxysms. Gouty persons bear the waters in a remarkable man¬ ner. They usually take the most powerful—that of the Source Celestins—in considerable quantities, without in¬ convenience. In Chronic Rheumatism and Rheumatic Gout, expe¬ rience has demonstrated the efficacy of these waters, and it is worthy of observation, that they contain an appre¬ ciable amount of potass. But, it cannot be too often repeated that it is the form and association under which the several elements exist in mineral waters, which deter¬ mine their therapeutic value. It is particularly important for such persons as suffer from Gout or Rheumatism to continue the use of the waters after leaving Vichy, or they soon lose the benefits