Observations on the mineral waters of Avon, Livingston County, New York / by John W. Francis.

  • Francis, John W. (John Wakefield), 1789-1861.
Date:
1834
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Credit: Observations on the mineral waters of Avon, Livingston County, New York / by John W. Francis. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sally known to both hemispheres,* and so extensively had recourse to, that little more need be said in this place than to recommend the reader, for the fullest details of chemical analysis and of a practical nature, to the recent work of Dr. Steele. So ample has been the experience of different medical observers concerning the active properties of these waters in various disorders, that the principles for their ex- hibition formerly urged with such earnestness, seem at the present day the less requisite. Yet caution against the popular error of indulging in their use to excess, must still be enforced, as the soundest principles of art are often set at nought by the preposterous indulgence, which some allow themselves, when they resort to the springs. These waters are designated acidulous saline clialybeates. The Schugl's Hills, or Schoolers Mountain water, de- serves also to be here noticed. The water of this mineral spring is said to have been known to the aborigines, and to have been employed by them as a remarkable remedy, which they concealed from the whites. Be this as it may : the Schooley's Mountain water is situated in Washington township, nineteen miles north-west of Morristown, and fifty miles from the city of New-York. The chemical ana- lysis of it made by Professor Macneven, my late colleague in Rutgers Medical College, furnishes an admirable speci- men of this species of philosophical investigation ; and were the products of other salubrious medicinal springs, within the United States, examined with a like minuteness and accuracy, we should have little cause to lament our present imperfect knowledge of this class of products with which our country is so largely enriched. I may be pardoned for dwelling a moment longer on this water. Schooley's See Hosack's Essays;—Dyckmnn, Edinburgh Dispensatory.