Observations on the waters of the Avon New-Bath Spring and Long's Spring, at Avon, Livingston County, N.Y / by S. Salisbury, Jr., M.D.

  • Salisbury, Samuel, Jr.
Date:
1835
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Credit: Observations on the waters of the Avon New-Bath Spring and Long's Spring, at Avon, Livingston County, N.Y / by S. Salisbury, Jr., M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    6 drinking it,a portion of that which is heated. Thebi si method of heating it will be, to putabottleof the spring water, lightly corked, 'into hot water, until it acquires a pr< p< r tern] ern- ture. As the water is equally efficacious in the winter summer months, in the cure of I applicable, it is, 1 am informed, the design of the proprietor of this spring to he in readiness to furnish baths, atoll seasons, to such as may require them. The proprietor, with a laudable spirit of enterprise and zeal for the accommodation of the public, has erected a large Bathing House near his spring, and promises to continue to make such improvements as will he consistent with the encouragement he receives. long;-; sprinc; This Spring issues from the surface of an alluvial flat, through the centre of whici) passes what has been called the Black Creek, a small stream, having its rise some miles south. It is about a mile, in a south-westerly direction, from the others. rJ he temperature of this water is 45° Fahrenheit; and its taste indicates the large quantities of saline materials which enter into its composition. By an examination of this water in 1832, 1 found that it was made up of the same con- stituents as the Lower Spring, but that these were in com- paratively much larger quantities. rl he quantity of saline matter which it contains is sufli< ient to require it to be classed distinct irom the other springs. Although the taste of this water is at fust rather disagreeable, yet the same genera! remark will apply to this as well as other hydro-sulphurous writers, that however nauseous at first, the palate soon be- comes reconciled to them, and they become much less disa- greeable by use. A large Boarding and {lathing House has been recently erected at this spring, and during the last and the present season, many invalids have made use of the water. Its action upon the skin, when used as a bath, as well as some lew cases