The report made to the National Institute of France : in the month of December 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul & Co. With extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva, and other testimonies in favour of the same waters. To which are added some notes and observations, by N. Paul.

  • Paul, Nicolas, 1763-1806.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The report made to the National Institute of France : in the month of December 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul & Co. With extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva, and other testimonies in favour of the same waters. To which are added some notes and observations, by N. Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    obliged to give leffons, when he could neither (peak nor read aloud, without extreme fatigue. He had a conflant fenfation of cold, numbnefs, and weaknefs in the legs and thighs. After hav- ing unfuccefsfullv tried feveral other remedies, I at length ufed the oxygenated waters, which anfwered perfectly well, and procured him very confiderable relief. 3d]y> u The oxygenated waters have alfo ap- peared to me very ufeful in cafes of weaknefs and lingering convalefcence, after febrile difeafes; and when the patient, without having any local com- plaint, found it difficult to regain his ftrength, his appetite, and ordinary fpirits. I have taken them myfelf after an ague, which had weakened me confiderably, and I derived very good effects from them. 4thly, “ They have fucceeded extremely well as diuretics, in cafes of analarca, accompanied with oppreffion and livid countenance. One of my col- leagues attended a patient, labouring under a difor* der of this nature, who had taken feveral remedies without effect-, and whom the oxygenated waters cured as it were by enchantment, by producing an abundant evacuation of urine. This cure, which was effected feveral months ago, has proved per- manent. “ When 1 began to ufe the oxygenated waters, I obferved that, with lome patients, it brought on diffind fymptoms of dyfuria. I have face found, H however, ^