Vichy and its mineral springs : extracted from the fourth edition of the Baths of France / by Edwin Lee.
- Edwin Lee
- Date:
- [1866?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![free living is superadded inactivity of the musculari system, which, acts in a like manner. Sydenham objected to gout being treated by purgatives partly because their action diminished the amount, of perspiration; and it is found that the free use, of medicines which act on the bowels, though they may for a time give relief, yet ultimately do harm' aud predispose to a recurrence of the attacks i* In fact, one physician (Dr. Turck of Plombieres]i advised the encouragement of constipation with a? view of lessening the acidity of the system. We may hence see why purgative waters, as. Carlsbad or Homburg, though they may often be advantageously employed, when used with dis^= crimination in cases of gout, especially where therr is much complication of disordered digestion o:i, liver affection, are yet not so well adapted to proi: duce beneficial results as some other waters whosJ mode of action is as effectually carried out b’| means of bathing as by their internal use, and thi | will occur when waters of different classes ar^J employed. That alkaline waters do not act solebll by their mere chemical property in neutralism! i the acid state of the blood and secretions in goui and are not essential for its removal or mitigation is proved by the fact that no less beneficial effect; are frequently produced in this disease by bath of a saline thermal water (Wiesbaden), or of sulphurous one (Aix-la-Chapelle); much benefit i likewise frequently derived from baths of slightll mineralised thermal waters, as Teplitz (which ha only four grains of soda to the pint) and Bath, oi](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30567580_0028.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
