Observations on the Ballston waters.

  • Hosack, David, 1769-1835.
Date:
[1810?]
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    the skin; all which diseases are most frequently produced by, or connected with, a morbid condition of the fluids, and an impaired state of the secretins.* In these complaints I have repeatedly prescribed these waters with the best effects. But according to the foregoing analysis, they contain an ingredient of great value, beside those already enumerated ; I mean the muriate of lime. It appears, upon the authority of Dr. Beddoes,f Dr. R. Pearson, J Dr. Wood,§ and Dr. Schraud of Vienna,|| that this substance has lately been dis- covered to be a remedy for sirophula, which hitherto has been the opprobrium of our profession. It is true, cases have been recorded by Russel and others, of the cure of this disorder by the use of sea water. But as it has been ascertained by chemists,T[ that the muriate of lime enters into the composition of sea water, it is very possible that much of the efficacy of the latter in that disease, may be derived from the muriate of lime, which it has been found to contain. But as scrophula is usually attended with a ge- neral debility of the system, as well as a morbid condition of the fluids, the Ballston waters will probably be found peculiarly serviceable, inasmuch as they possess the means of invigorating the system, at the same time that they contain the antidote to the peculiar virus of that disease. * See Wilson on Dyspepsia, Gravel, &c. See also Treatise on Gravel and Gout, t Treatise on (lie Consumption, Digitalis, and Scrophula. ; London Medical Review, vol. 3. 6 Edinburgh Medical Journal, vol. I. j| Treatise de Febribus. See Lavoisier, Jacquin, Thompson, and Murray.