A practical dissertation on the waters of Leamington-Spa; including the history of the springs, a new analysis of their gaseous and solid contents, ... diet of the patients, and other regimen - Softcover
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1828 edition. Excerpt: ...time, invariably proves beneficial in the diseases depending on general cachexy „ Such are 1 he varieties of struma, under which are included scrofulous swellings of the neck, tumefaction of the abdomen, from an enlarged state of the mesenteric glands, and other morbid affections of the lymphatic and glandular system. With regard to any specific action in ŁKen saline springs, in curing the firs' stage of white swelling of the knee joint, or in curing the different states of spine disease, it may be safely asseverated, that internally, beyond the alterative power alluded to, and the sympathetic effect Avhich is produced on every local disease by means of a regular state of the stomach and bowels, the waters do not possess any medicinal virtue of such a character. The antilithic effects of the saline springs have been much extolled, by certain writers on this particular kind of water. That they, however, exert a specific effect in dissolving calculi or gravel, may be safely denied. Whatever benefit has been derived from mineral springs, in such cases, may, with more propriety, be referred to the healthy change induced in the functions of the alimentary canal,--a derangement of which is so conducive to the formation of calculi,--than to any attenuating power which the springs possess. Mild as the saline waters usually are, an indiscriminate use of them, like the abuse of every other medicine, proves very hurtful to the constitution. When repeated too often, a febrile state is induced by the application of the saline particles to the mucous membrane of the intestine, which, by withdrawing at the same time a quantity of fluid from the general circulating mass, is followed by a diminution of the vital functions, an effect which, it is...
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