The ioduretted waters of Cheltenham : their nature, properties and application to the cure of various forms of disease / by D.W. Nash.

  • Nash, D. W.
Date:
1837
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Credit: The ioduretted waters of Cheltenham : their nature, properties and application to the cure of various forms of disease / by D.W. Nash. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    derives its name of bromine, from the Greek word ^pa),uOs fa'lor, on account of its very offensive smell. It is very frequently found associated with iodine, but in general where one of these minerals is present in large quantities, the other is either nearly or altogether deficient. Thus in the Middlewich brine spring in Cheshire, which contains more than one grain and a half of bromine to the pint of water, only a trace of the pre- sence of iodine can be discovered, while in the ioduretted waters of Cheltenham, bromine is either absent or in barely appreciable quantity. Where it does exist in the Cheltenham waters, it is in the state of hydrobromic acid, in combination with either soda or magnesia, the state in which it is most frequently found in nature. Hitherto, bromine has not been much employed in medicine. M. M. Pourche, and Barthez, have pub- lished some observations upon its medicinal properties, in which they report several cases of its successful employment in scrofula, goitre, and enlarged glands. These trials have been repeated by others with equally good results, and tend to prove, what reason and analogy had before shown to be extremely probable,