Essays on the mineral waters of Vals / by the Dr. Chabannes.

  • Chabannes, Léon.
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Essays on the mineral waters of Vals / by the Dr. Chabannes. 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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    One from Balisse (Vaucluse), enteralgy. Those patients coming from every direction show how well known were the waters of Vals at that time. Lieutaud, a physician of great repute in Paris towards the middle of the eighteenth century, mentions the waters of Vals at every page in his compendium of practical medecine. The hahit of drinking the Vals waters, far from the springs, was not limited to Paris alone, for J.-J. Rousseau informs us, in his Confessions , that, during his stay at Montpellier, he drank the Vals water to cure himself of his famous polybe, ... which existed but in his imagination. At the beginning of the present century, in 1810, Buisson Lagrange devotes a long chapter to the waters of Vals. Alibert, Paiissier, P6trequin, Socquet, Durand-Fardel, etc, speak highly of them. However we shall take the liberty to l ectify some erroneous assertions which, repeated or copied from pen to pen, might get some credit at last and injure the reputation of Vals, though only due at first to a mere mis- take of authors otherwise most praise worthy. French and Foreign onedical review of Hydrology. N for june 1865. ttO-o-O-O-C-O-o-c-o -» MINERAL WATERS TAKEN AS A DRINK. That mineral water ])aths may be productive of very great ofrGcls,n.o one can deny, though no one up to the present day lias been able to give a satisfactory explanation of their modus operandi. VVliatever may be their chemical composition, their heat, Uicir electrical power even, all physicians agree in this point, that the way in Avhich they are used has a great share in the result obtained. For mineral waters taken as a drink such is not the case. The Ircnlmcnt does not require so mucii arl, and the result