The spas and mineral waters of Europe : with notes on balneo-therapeutic management in various diseases and morbid conditions / by Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber.

Date:
1896
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    Strumous years Kreuznach, Ems, Soden, Eeichenhall, and other oulous^^'^ localities were frequently recommended; but we now re- affeotions gai'd spa treatment as of secondary importance. During ■ summer the sea coasts of England are infinitely more useful to scrofulous children than hot inland spas, such as Kreuznach and Ems; and the education of scrofulous children entirely at the seaside is one of the most successful means of managing such cases. What were formerly called strumous affections of the joints and bones have, since Koch’s discovery of the tubercle { bacillus, been admitted to be of tuberculous origin, and I it has been found that they are in most instances i amenable to aseptic surgical treatment.^ These good i ■ results of operation are apparently more readily ob- ' I tained in suitable climates—for instance, at the hospital j j of Samaden in the Upper Engadine under the direction : of Dr. Bernhard, and at the Eoyal Sea Bathing In- i firmary of Margate. ! Pulmonary tuberculosis is now generally admitted ; to do best under dietetic and hygienic management ' in what may be termed aseptic climates, in elevated regions, the desert, or on the high seas. Occasionally, however, arsenic spas may be of temporary assistance, such as Mont Dore and La Bourboule. The sulphur i waters of the Pyrenees have an old-established reputa- ' tion, and it is a matter of general experience that the catarrhal conditions associated with pulmonary and l! laryngeal tuberculoses are often alleviated at Eaux- []' Bonnes, Cauterets, Le Vernet, Amelie-les-Bains, Ba- gneres-de-Luchon, and Bagneres-de-Bigorre. !;' lous ’ before they were known to be due to the tubercle bacillus; the i| course of these afiections separates them clinically from tuberculosis . occurrinG in tbG lungs. !i > Tuberculous Disease of Bones and Joints. By W. Watson Cheyne. Edinburgh and London, 1896.