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Credit: Natural mineral waters : their properties and uses. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![SOURCE LARBAUD. Alkaline Sodio-bicarbonated Water. Temperature 15°C. (59° Fahr.) The analysis of the SOURCE LARBAUD, made by M. Ossian Henry, gave the aubjoined result?, in grains per gallon :— Carbonic Acid 92-40 grains. Bicarbonate of Soda 341-60 „ „ Potash ]5-40 » Lime 16-66 „ „ Magnesia ] 330 „ ., Lithia perceptible trace „ „ Protoxide of Iron 1*61 „ „ Manganese very slight trace „ Sulphates of Soda and Lime 7-00 „ Chlorides of Sodium and Calcium 21*00 „ Nitrates slight trace Iodine and Bromine perceptible trace Arseniates „ Phosphates „ „ Sihcic Acid, Silicate, and Organic matter 4-20 grains. Total... 513-17 „ The water of the Larbaud Spring is rich in carbonic acid, and consequently of easy digestion. From the results of analyses that have been made, it appears that, when exported, it retains all the natural elements of the Vichy waters. The water of the Larbaud Spring, says M. Ossian Henry, in his admirable report to the Acadimie de Mklecine, is rich in mineralking elements. It contains a high'proportion of tree carbonic acid, of alkaline bicarbonates, and > protoxide of iron, of which the greater part remains in solution in the water. The carbonic acid contained in the water, when bottled and exported under the best conditions, is nearly equal in quantity to that originally contained in the water as it issues from the Spring ; showing, conclusively, that it suffers no deterioration by transport. The very small quantity of nsoluble salts which this water contains, in proportion to the abundance of the other constituents, assures its perfect limpidity, a property which, I am convinced, will be fully appreciated. This water is used as a remedy for affections of the liver and spleen, vesical catarrh, chlorosis, gravel, calculus, diabetes, dyspepsia, gastro-enteritis, refractory fevers, gout, heaviness of the stomach, &c. The Larbaud Spring is provided with a Thermal Establishment, very well fitted up, and comprising 33 bath-rooms, and 2 douche-rooms, of all kinds. For particulars, apply to the Regisseur de la Source Larbaud, Boulevard des Celestins, Vichy, Allier, France. SOURCE LARDY. Sodio-Bicabbonated Ferruginous Waters.—Temperature 2390 C. (75° Fahr.) The waters of the Lardy Spring are sodio-bicarbonated, like all the other Vichy waters ; they contain 343-7 grains of that salt per gallon. Their use is prescribed in all affections of the stomach, dyspepsia, gastralgia, vomiting, anorexia, heaviness of the stomach, etc. Their efficacy also extends to affections of the biliary ducts, such as : chronic hepatitis, biliary calculus, obstruction of the liver, hypertrophic kyrrhosis (especially the early stages), gout and all affections of the urinary passages, uric-acid diathesis, vesical catarrh, impoverishment of the blood, chlorosis (or pallor), protracted convalescence, adynamia, diabetes, articular rheumatism, acute and chronic. The water of the Lardy Spring is also ferruginous, as it contains 1*96 grains of protoxide of iron per gallon. It will be prescribed, by prefereuce, wherever the con- stitution requires to be strengthened by iron, as frequently happens in the above-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22294168_0054.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
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