Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Centennial edition / edited and compiled by Ludwig Bruck.
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Centennial edition / edited and compiled by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![8.—FERRUGINOUS, or CHALYBEATE WATERS. These waters increase the red corpuscles and fibrine of the blood, they stimulate the nervous, circulating, and digestive organs, and are useful in all classes of diseases where tonic and invigorating medicines are required to assist blood formation, especially in Ansemia, and Chlorosis, also in Nervous Complaints, Debility of Muscles and Mucous Membranes, Stomachic and Intestinal Catarrh, all Female Complaints, etc. (a.) ACIDULOUS CHALYBEATES. This class of mineral waters contains Carbonate of the Protoxide of Iron, with Carbonate of Magnesium and Carbonic Acid. Hepburn, Vic. ; Masterton, N.Z. (Spring No. 5.) (6.) SALINE ACIDULOUS CHALYBEATES. These waters, in addition to the above, contain Sulphates and Carbonates of Soda and Lime, and Chloride of Sodium. Springs Nos. 4, 2, 1 and 3 at Clifton Springs (see Drys- dale, Vic.) ; Amberley, N.Z. ; Ballan, Vic. (c.) SULPHATE CHALYBEATES. Waters strongly charged with Sulphate of Iron. Cold. — Onetapu, N.Z. (contains also Sulphate of Alumina.) Hot.—Waihunuhunukuri [Spring No. 9] at Ohinemutu. (d.) UNDETERMINED CHALYBEATES. Chalybeate Waters, of which no analyses could be obtained. Merewortb, N.S.W. ; Mittagong, N.S.W. ; Mount Perry, Qu. ; Whangarei, N.Z.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21905770_0153.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
