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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    regards the quantity of bromine, than to any other spring in Cheltenham. But when setting aside the consideration of bromine as a medicinal agent, owing to the extremely minute quantity in which it exists in the ioduretted waters, it should not be forgotten, that this very condition is the most favourable to their action on the constitution. The combinations naturally formed in the subterranean laboratories, and the diffusion of the solid matters to which the waters owe their curative virtues, in a state of minute division, through a large quantity of fluid give to these mineral springs a value and an efficacy, which therapeutists vainly try to imitate in their artifi- cial solutions ; and many circumstances tend to show, without yielding to the absurdities of those who preach up the false doctrines of infinitesimal doses of medicine, that certain powers of remedial agents may be obtained by the passage into the circulation of quantities of medicine far more minute than would formerly have been conceived capable of producing any appreciable effect. The inoculative method of applying medicines lately introduced by some able continental physicians, sufficiently demonstrates the truth of this assertion. These remarks particularly apply to iodine ; given in