On mineral waters, their physical & medicinal properties : with descriptions of the different mineral waters of Great Britain and the continent, and directions for their administration.

  • Glover, Robert Mortimer, 1816-1859.
Date:
1857
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Credit: On mineral waters, their physical & medicinal properties : with descriptions of the different mineral waters of Great Britain and the continent, and directions for their administration. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Glasgow Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Glasgow Library.

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    CONTENTS. CHAPTER 1. PAGE Different Opinions concerning the efB.cacy of Mineral Waters; general Opinion of Mankind in their favour—Practice of the Ancients— Modern Turks and Ancient Eomans-—Mode in which most Mineral Waters have been discovered—Instincts of Animals . 1—12 CHAPTER II. Nature and Origin of Mineral Waters—The Sea the chief Mineral Water—Constituents of Mineral Waters, ordinary and more rare— Division of Mineral Waters into Hot or Thermal, and Cold— Causes of Thermality, and of the greater Medicinal Effects of natural Hot Springs over those of ordinary Hot-water Baths— Further Division of Mineral Waters : Gaseous, Carbonated, and Sulphuretted; Alkaline, Saline, Chalybeate 13—33 CHAPTER III. Medicinal Action of Mineral Waters—Hot and Cold Bathing—The Sea—Sea Air—External Applications of Gas—Mud Baths—Pro- perties of the different Classes of Waters—Selection of a Mineral Water—Climate, Diet, and Eegimen 34—55 PAET I. PARTICULAR MINERAL WATERS, MINERAL WATERS OP ENGLAND. Section A.—Mineral Waters North op the Trent. CHAPTER IV. Gilsland—Shap—Shotley—Tynemouth—Croft — Dinsdale — Gains- borough—Butterby—Scarborough 56—71