Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee.

  • Edwin Lee
Date:
[1866?]
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Credit: Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    quently owing to the water being taken in toos large doses, especially when baths are used at the“ same time.* One of the strongest objections that has beem: made against the Yichy waters is that, by thei* alkalisation of the blood and secretions from their Hi prolonged use, a cachectic condition, attended with:; great debility, is induced; and there can be no i doubt that much caution and discrimination areii required in their administration, when there exists h any tendency to a depressed state of the system.i that cannot be ascribed to the presence of visceral i disease, which these waters are calculated to re¬ move. Even in the last century, Cullen expressed his apprehensions respecting the abuse of alkalies • in the treatment of gout and gravel, remarking - that he “never dared to persist for a long time in their use, lest they should produce a prejudicial effect upon the state of the fluids,^^ and this appre¬ hension has been shown to be well-grounded by the observations of pathologists of late years upon the excessive use of alkaline mineral waters. MM. Trousseau and Pidoux remark on this point: “ The abuse which has been made of the waters of ■ Carlsbad and Yichy in the treatment of gout has enabled us to judge rightly upon this serious question. The abuse of alkalies has certainly * The Vichy waters lose little by being transported to a distance, though the action of those of a high tempera¬ ture must be different from what it is at the source, where also baths form in most instances an essential part of the treatment.
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