The mode of employing the mineral waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette.
- Tourrette, Auguste.
- Date:
- [1866]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The mode of employing the mineral waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr. Tourrette. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.
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![obliged to consult a doctor, wlio during 5 months submitted his patient lo n regimen more calculated to impede the process of the disorder than to cure it. I prescribed thr.ec glasses of water from the Precieuse at half an hour's interval.- The patient to take four other glas- ses in the day at her meals. A the end of 25 days of this treatment, the menses, which had disappeared since six months, came on very well. The cure began well and continued so without any relapse. GASTRALGT. M. M. D... age 25 weak lympathetic constitution, suffered, since his 19ii« y6ar, pains in the stomach , had vomitings every eight or ten days. Since one year after each menl he felt :i heaviness and pains in the epigaslrir region, and often vomiled his food half digested. Every morning he thre^v iip\great deal of gastric.juice extremely acid. His complexion was sollow, the skin palish ; no appetite ; continual constipation that .no remedy could relieve. - ^. . After ascertaining that the vomitings wei-c not produced by any organic lesion of the stomach, nor by any disorder in the brain, I prescribed prn- uressive doses ofour alkaline waters of the Precieuse or the Magdeleme. By the influence of this simple treatment the vomitings ceased so early as tl..-. tenth day; on the twentieth the patient digested well, enjoyed sound and invigorating sleep, had recovered his ordinary complexion, and on the thirtieth his cure was the object of no doubt. OBSERVATIONS. One nnist have had some -years practice of the curin- powers of mineral waters to add implicite faith to the won- derful results in some cases. Not one of mv honorable and learned brethren of Carls- bad Ems, Luxcnil, Saint-Alban, will question the truth of this'remark, which, I am sure, will cause a smile on incre- dulity to mantle on the face of some practitioners. If amonfr Ihem there should happen to be eny who have patients suffe- ring from acid dyspepsia, let them prescribe the waters o( Vals from the springs Precieuse, Desires or Magdeleine. ] warrant their incredulity will not outstand a month.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b22282208_0016.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
