The Virginia springs: comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia : with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each / by John J. Moorman.

  • J. J. Moorman
Date:
1857
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Credit: The Virginia springs: comprising an account of all the principal mineral springs of Virginia : with remarks on the nature and medical applicability of each / by John J. Moorman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    apt to feel better at the time, than those upon whom the water is exerting but little or no purgative effect. It may be laid down as a general fact, in the use of the White Sulphur Water, subject to but few excep- tions that those on whose bowels it acts freely, will feel best while at the Springs; while those who are but little purged, will feel best after they have left the S]?rings, and will, ordinarily, enjoy the most permanent advantage. The reason of this is obvious; in the first . the active purgation throws off the gross humors of the body, and the patient feels promptly relieved; in the other case, the remedy lies upon the system, is ab- sorbed, and gradually produces its changing influences — bringing the various secretory functions into a healthy condition—unloading and cleansing the machinery of the economy—silently putting its icorJcs to rights, and giving them their natural and healthy motion. All this re- quires time for its accomplishment; and hence, we often hear persons say, I was no better while at the Springs, but T began to mend soon after I left, and have continued better since. Declarations of this kind I hear every day by persons who have previously visited the Springs; and they verify the correctness of my proposition. Length of Time to he used, <£*c.—To acute diseases, mineral waters arc not adapted) for all such they are too exciting, too prone to increase the activity of the circulation, and to stimulate the general system. It is in chronic diseases only that they are found so emi- nentlv serviceable. Bv chronic diseases J mean those
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