On the effects of the thermal waters of Ems / by Louis Spengler.

  • Spengler, L. (Ludwig), 1818-1866.
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: On the effects of the thermal waters of Ems / by Louis Spengler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    specified. Certainty of effect in a few dis- eases, is assuredly to be preferred to uncertain or ambiguous operation in many. It is not the object of the present work to laud the waters of Ems as a universal panacea; on the contrary, in enumerating- the forms of disease suited to these waters, it is my wish to simplify the cata- logue as much as possible, — and in this res- pect, I confess, I had rather do too much than too little. A physician practising at a watering- place ought to do everything in his power to facilitate a choice of such importance, as that of a medicinal spring; an object hardly to be at- tained by expatiating (more majorum) on its mar- vellous effects; or, in an equally reprehensible spirit, by indulging in hyperbolical tirades about the intimate and subtile blending of the com- ponents in mineral waters, and the peculiar na- ture of their warmth, — but rather by giving a concise, decisive, and empirical account of the effects of his particular spring, — when bene-