Extracts gathered from physiological and clinical observations concerning the mineral waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr Clermont.

  • J. L. Numa Clermont
Date:
[1870]
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Credit: Extracts gathered from physiological and clinical observations concerning the mineral waters of Vals (Ardèche) / by Dr Clermont. 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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    are healed by our waters in their local manifestations, being at first eased in their origin. These different effects have given to the waters of Vais examples of prompt and hopeless cures, and if it, may be said, have performed the sudden resurrection of vital and organical forces. As for the water of Dominique spring, its reconstitutive anti- periodical proprieties discovered, three centuries ago, by the cele- brated cure of the Dominican, have been since this period very often experienced, and are known to-day by every physician. We have spoken of its tonical effects, but we have particularly insis- ted on its alteratmg and sedative proprieties generated by the presence of arseniate of iron. To act as an alterating agent is a most precious quality and the sulpho ferro-arsenical waters of Vais will be the more used, that dermatosis and diseases produced by the presence of microscopical infusaria or other anormal substances in the blood and the tissues will be better known, it is to say, when the means of investigation will be improved, and will better answer to the curiosity of the young, ardent, and laborious men who will follow us. If our task is not sufficiently completed, if the reader has met with numerous omissions and desiderata, he will remember that we have worked at the theory which will lead a day to the true theory of the therapeutical effects of our mineral waters; this dis- covery is reserved to others more skillful or happier, and tins modest essay is not begun by Horatio’s quotation : Exegi monumentum cere perennws.
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