The mineral waters of the United States and their therapeutic uses : With an account of the various mineral spring localities, their advantages as health resorts, means of access, etc., to which is added an appendix on potable waters / By James K. Crook.

  • Crook, James K. (James King), 1859-1908.
Date:
1899
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Credit: The mineral waters of the United States and their therapeutic uses : With an account of the various mineral spring localities, their advantages as health resorts, means of access, etc., to which is added an appendix on potable waters / By James K. Crook. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHAPTER V . HIE scii.ii> AND GASEOUS COMPONENTS OF MINERAL WATERS. PAGE Common Ingredients—Rare Ingredients—Some of the Therapeutic Properties of Pure Water—Aeids—Aluminium—Ammonium— Antimony—Arsenic—Barium—Borax—Bromides and Iodides— Cadmium—Calcium 38-43 CHAPTER VI. THE SOLID AXD GASEOUS COMPONENTS OF MINERAL WATERS — ( < butilined). Carbonic Acid Gas and the Alkaline Carbonates—The Chlorides— Fluorine—Hydrogen Sulphide—Carbureted Hydrogen—Iodine— Iron—Lead — Lithium—Magnesium—Manganese—Nitrogen and Oxygen—Potassium — Silicon — Sodium — Strontium —The Sul- phates—Zinc—Organic Ingredients—Crenic and Apocrenic Acids —Baregine, or Hydrosin—Glairine—Sulfuraria—Algse . . 44->2 CHAPTER VII. THE THERAPEUTICS OF MINERAL WATEKS. Impeded or Imperfect Convalescence—Ansemia and Chlorosis—Gen- eral Debility—Dyspepsia and Diseases of the Alimentary Tract and Liver—Constipation—Abdominal Venosity, nr the Full Habit—Diarrluea and Dysentery—Rheumatism— Gout and the Uric-acid Diathesis—Uric-acid Gravel and Calculi . . . 53-60 CHAPTER VIII. THE THERAPEUTICS OF MINERAL WATERS— {Continued). Chronic Cystitis, Enlarged Prostate, Vesical Catarrh, Gleet, etc.— Other Lithwmic or Uric-acid States—Diseases of the Skin—Dia- betes MellitUB, or Persistent Glycosuria—Syphilis—Scrofula, or the Strumous Diathesis—Renal Diseases — Diseases of the Nerv- ous System—Diseases of the Respiratory Organs—Diseases of the Heart—Chronic Malarial Toxemia and the Paludal Cachexia —Obesity—Uterine Disorders—Chronic Metallic Poisoning 61-66 (II A I'TKK I \. BATHE IND DOUCHES LND nn:iR MEDICINA] (78ES. Temperatures of Baths—Varieties oi Baths—Purposes oi the Hath— Functions of the skin—The Oold Bath—The Temperate and the Ti pid l'.nil -The Warm Bath—The Bot Hath—The Douche: lt- Varieties, Physiological Action, and Therapeutics . . .67-74