Chronic albuminuria (Bright's disease) and the thermal waters of La Bourboule / by Anthony Dauzat.

  • Dauzat, Antoine.
Date:
[1883?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Chronic albuminuria (Bright's disease) and the thermal waters of La Bourboule / by Anthony Dauzat. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    buses, carriages, and landaus are constantly in readiness for La Bourboule, which is 6 1/4 miles distant. In a few years, a branch railway to this bathing-place will probably be opened. Parks, Casinos, and a Theatre, besides varied and beautiful excursions, most of which are within easy reach, afford patients and visitors abundant recreation. The Bourboule Mineral Waters Company has under its management three bathing establishments, provided with all the newest and most approved appliances, offering to sufferers all the varied re- sources of modern thermal therapeutics, such as spacious and comfortable bath-rooms, shower and vapour baths, hydropathic arrangements, rooms for the pulverisation and inhalation of the mineral wa- ter, and for shampooing, etc. The composition of the Bourboule mineral wa- ters , [according to the analysis made in 1878 by Messrs Jules Lefort and Bouis, Members of the Medical Academy of Paris, is as follows : ELEMENTARY ANALYSIS. Yield : I 'iO gallons per minute , or 201600 gallons per day. £at the bottom of the well = 140° h'ahr. ' ( at the surface of the water: 133° Fahr. Saline residuum per litre : 1 drachm 16 grains. Metallic artenic : 1/9 of a grain. Carbonic acid -.. 1 scr. 5 1/3 gr. Hydrochloric acid 1 scr. 7 gr. Sulphuric acid 1 gr. 2/3. Arsenic acid 1 1/2 gr.