The physiology and therapeutics of the Harrogate waters, baths, and climate applied to the treatment of chronic disease / by William Bain and Wilfrid Edgecombe.

  • Bain, William
Date:
1905
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Credit: The physiology and therapeutics of the Harrogate waters, baths, and climate applied to the treatment of chronic disease / by William Bain and Wilfrid Edgecombe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the quantity of bile and of bile solids as the Old Sulphur Spring. The results of the investigation are embodied in the following table :— re b> wy eH & (oma < Bile Solids, Bile Salts. Drugs Administered. Number of Days on which Drugs were given cS) aoe. Sg be oS) ge Totalin| Per oe Per & grms. | cent. germs cent, 16 Without Medication 775 |15°893 | 2°07 | 4197) °55 | 4 | Old Sulphur Spring . .| 878 |18584| 2°14] 5-870] -69 4 Kissingen Spring . .| 845 |16°330) 1°97 | 4°734} °55 2 Carlsbad Mineral Water . | 809 | 18352 2-24| 5-560] -68 5 Kuonymin . : . | 8386 | 17°300| 2°03 | 5°031 | °60 1 Benzoate of Soda . . .| 856 |18514/ 216/ ... Ses 3 Salicylate of Soda . . .| 797 |17°:215| 2°14| 5-462 | ‘68 4 Iida, a. . . «| 788 | 17°764| 2°35 | 5-088 | °68 2 Podophyllo-resin . . «| 744 |18°714) 2°48) 7-774 | °73 1 Podophyllo-toxin . . 758 | 14311, 1°88 | 4°044)| °56 5 Strong Montpellier Spring 747 | 15°318) 2:00 | 3°853 | °50 2 Chloride of Iron Spring . | 808 | 17:314) 2°10) 5°241| -64 1 Pint of Hot Water. . .| 785 |16°519| 2°09 | 4:207| -53 i Pint of Soda Water . .| 783 |16°612/ 2°10] ... ses We suspect the sulphur water increases the motor power of the gall bladder. This supposition would partly explain its beneficial influence in cases of chole- lithiasis. An attempt was made by the same investigator’ to ascertain the ingredient or ingredients to which the Old Sulphur Spring owes its efficacy as a cholagogue. Sulphuretted hydrogen was found to be inert: the results being negative were not published. The experi- ments were carried out in a similar manner to those 1 Bain, “An Experimental Contribution to the Study of the Mechanism of Bile Secretion,” Journal of Anatomy and Physiology, vol, xxxiv.