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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    ployed in Algeria and the East, has published, as a supplement to his work on Intermittent Fevers,’*' a notice of the modus operandi of the Yichy waters in enlargement of the liver and spleen, and other consecutive affections of these diseases. Dr. Durand-Fardel remarks (‘‘Lettres”) that at least two-thirds of the patients who come ta^ Yichy do so on account of disorders of the digestive* functions ; and considering such disorder to be aj: chief cause of the gout, he concludes that thej Yichy waters tend to correct the gouty diathesis,,, by maintaining the integrity of nutrition, or re¬ establishing it when disordered. He does not^ seem to take into account the modification which: the system undergoes in this disease by the absorp- - tion of the water internally taken, or in the form;] of baths (as demonstrated by the experiments of( Dr. Willemin), and the alteration thus produced' in the blood, by which, as is the case with respect:t to some other thermal baths, the diathesis is most:i effectually weakened, and the recurrence of attacks!- prevented, which not unfrequently occurs evem when there does not co-exist any material digestive: disorder. With regard to uterine disease, the same phy- - sician remarks that nervous and hysterical women la do not well bear the Yichy waters. These waters,, though much stronger, yet greatly resemble the; Ems waters in composition and temperature; and I in many cases, where the indication is not toi; impart tone to the system, and where their tool: stimulating effect is not to be apprehended, they