On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell.

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1881
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Credit: On the Mont Dore cure and the proper way to use it : in the rheumatic, gouty, scrofulous, syphilitic, tuberculous, dartrous, and other morbid constitutional states; also in asthma, consumption, bronchitis, emphysema, naso-pulmonary catarrh, and other affections of the throat, chest and mucous membranes / by Horace Dobell. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    89 have found the most important information for our guidance. I shall especially quote from the following typical authors, whose works are representative of the matters in question at different periods in the history of Mont Dore. 1. Dissertatio Medica de Aquis Montis Aurei. By Sebastianus Johaimes Babtista Lavialle du Masmorel [Son of the Eesident Crown Inspector at Mont Dore]. Montpellier, 1768. 2. Recherches sur les Proprietes Physiques, Chimiques, et Medicinales des Eaux du Mont D'Or. Seconde Edi- tion, considdrablement augmentee. Par Michel Bertrand, [for 52 years] Inspecteur des Eaux du Mont D'Or, Medecin de I'Hotel-Dieu de Clermont-Ferrand, Membre de la Com- mission pour les Eaux Minerales Naturelles de I'Academie Royale de Medecine. First edition, 1810; second edition, 1823. 3. Dictionnaire General des Eaux Minerales, &c. Par MM. Durand-Fardel, Eugene Le Bret, J. Lefort, Jules Frangois, 1860. 4. Les Eaux Minerales du Mont Dore, &e. Par le Docteur Boudant, Inspecteur-adjoint de ces Eaux, Prof, de I'Ecole de Mdd., de Clermont-Ferrand, Medecin de I'Hotel-Dieu, &c., et Laure'at de la Faculte de I'Academie de Medecine de Paris, &c. 1877. 5. Le Mont Dore et ses Eaux Minerales. Notice Medicale. Par le Dr. Em. Emond, Medecin Consultant aux Eaux du Mont Dore, Membre Titulaire de la Soc. d'Hydrologie Medicale de Paris, &c. 1879. For the assistance of my readers I have translated all the passages quoted, and, to avoid prolixity, given them in jjrecis when practicable, and I have converted all weights and measures into English standards.