Natural mineral waters : their properties and uses.

  • Ingram & Royle (Firm)
Date:
1886
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Natural mineral waters : their properties and uses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    PREFACE. :)o(: SEVERAL years Lave elapsed since the publication of the 7th edition of this pamphlet, and the demand for Natural Mineral Waters having, during that interval, grown enormously, it has become necessary to issue a revised and improved edition, brought up to the level of existing knowledge on this subject. A notable feature in this new edition will be found in the particulars of many excellent natural mineral waters, formerly but little known or used, but recently come into vogue, on account of their special properties and uses. The prominent characteristic of hydro-therapeutics has been, of recent years, the rapid extension of the use of Natural Mineral Waters by the Faculty in this country. The gradual adoption of this mode of treat- ment at home, in the initial and even advanced stage of various diseases (many of them somewhat obscure), and in substitution for the journey for the purpose of treatment in situ, has had and is still having the effect of assimilating the medical practice of the United Kingdom more closely to that of continental physicians. By the latter these remedial agents have long been held in the highest estimation, and their use lai'gely prescribed, whence it results that the consumption of Natural Mineral Waters, in ail parts of the Continent of Europe, is many times greater in proportion than it is in this country. Our object in compiling and issuing this improved edition of our pamphlet is mainly to promote a more extended knowledge of these valuable natural remedies and their consequent use, by supplying, in an elementary form, useful information as to the chemical composition and the special healing virtues of all the leading Natural Mineral Waters ; supplemented by an Appendix, containing, in tabular form, brief notices of these and many other waters, less known, for which a small but increasing demand has arisea in this country. We trust that this general resume will lead all those who are interested in this special subject to consult and study the comprehensive works of the many eminent specialists who have treated thereof viz., Drs. Sutro, Weber, Althaus, Macpherson, Lee, Braun, Durand-Fardel, Prosser-James, and others—sources to which we have to acknowledge our obligation for much of the information herein contained. INGRAM & ROYLE, 52, Farringdon Street, E.C. March, 1886.