Londonderry lithia spring water : nature prepares the antidote : the strongest natural lithia water in the world : an absolute specific for gout rheumatism, dyspepsia, gravel and all renal and vesical diseases : a delicious table water.

  • Londonderry Lithia Spring Water Co.
Date:
[1891?]
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Credit: Londonderry lithia spring water : nature prepares the antidote : the strongest natural lithia water in the world : an absolute specific for gout rheumatism, dyspepsia, gravel and all renal and vesical diseases : a delicious table water. 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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    ABOUT LITHIA. The salts of Litllia were prominently brought under the notice of the medical profession about thirty years ago by Dr. Garrod, who recommended them in cases of uric acid diathesis, connected with gravel and also in chronic gout and rheumatism. This recommendation was based upon the fact that Litllia possesses great affinity for uric acid, rendering it soluble, and hence when mixed with urate of soda, it decomposes the latter and unites with the uric acid, forming a soluble urate of lithia and leaves the soda free. There are various derange- ments of the system which cause an excess of uric acid, which, if not eliminated from the blood, cause gouty de- posits, gravel, and a long train of symptoms pointing to- ward the kidneys and bladder as the seat of the disease. For thirty }'ears the salts of Lithia have proved a cur- ative agent of the highest order in the treatment of gout and rheumatism, diseases of the kidneys and bladder and the removal of all morbid phenomena, the result of the uric acid in the blood. For myself I have not the least doubt as to the result of lithium salts as the probable agents, and am convinced that by their employment depositions of uric acid in the renal organs can, to a large extent, be prevented. I have been much in the habit of using potassium with lithium in the form of the carbonate, the former to give neutralizing, the latter to increase the solvent power.—Dr. Garrod.