On the Strathpeffer Spa / by D. Manson.

Date:
[1866?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the Strathpeffer Spa / by D. Manson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    tlian into any of these. They are pre-eminently rich in sulphuretted hydi-ogen gas. According to a short report on them and other sulphur- waters, by Professor Christison, they are tlie strongest in this I'espect yet known in Bi'itain. The saline ingredients occur in varying jjropor- tions in the different ^^ells. They are the sul- ])hates of magnesia, soda, and lime, the chloride of sodium, aud one or two alkaline carbonates. Salts oi iron are also present in several of the wells. The predominating salt is the sulphate of magnesia. In the sulphur-waters of Harro- gate, Moffat, and Aix-la-Chapelle the predomi- natiijg salt is the chloride of sodium. The sul- phates of magnesia and soda in the waters of Strath])effer do not exist in such abundance as to render them mai-kedly, or even invariably aperient, although taken in large quantities ; their action being specially (m the kidneys, on which they act with very great energy aud promptitude. In this particular they differ in their action from the stronger waters of Har- rogate, and resemble more the sulphur-water of Moffat, the ]n-edominating salt in the former of these existing in such abundance as to render them aperient when taken in comparatively small