An account of the Beulah saline spa at Norwood, Surrey; containing a description of its medicinal properties and effects of the diseases in which it is remedial, and directions for its use / [George Hume Weatherhead].

  • George Weatherhead
Date:
1832
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An account of the Beulah saline spa at Norwood, Surrey; containing a description of its medicinal properties and effects of the diseases in which it is remedial, and directions for its use / [George Hume Weatherhead]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    OF THEIR MEDICINAL PROPERTIES AND EFFECTS. A review of the analysis given in a preceding page at once points out the effects of the Beulah Spring, when taken, to be those of a mild, yet active aperient, diuretic, and alterative; and when we come to regard its application as a remedial agent, this embraces a catalogue of a very prevalent and extensive class of maladies. There are so many diseases which originate from a disordered state of the bowels; there are so many diseases that induce a deranged condition of these organs; there are so many diseases which are benefited by adjusting the disordered tone of digestion, that an aperient saline spring, operating in a mild manner, necessarily assists— nay, of itself often completes a cure. Hence, as an efficacious mean of accomplishing, in nume¬ rous instances, this desirable end, I know of none better suited from their nature, or more appro¬ priated from the mildness and certainty of their operation, than a course of the waters we are treating of, if properly regulated. As health may be defined to consist in a just equilibrium of action in all the functions of the body, so the definition of disease may be summed up in describing it as consisting in this equipoise being broken down in one or more of its parts. Keeping this in view, the rational object of the
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