The use and abuse of the Harrogate mineral waters / by Arthur Roberts.

  • Roberts, Arthur.
Date:
1901
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    microscope shows that some of the red corpuscles are beginning to disintegrate and shrivel up. Had he returned, and had the waters changed to one of mild sulphur, or one of the chalybeate waters, he would have been saved all his suffering and ill-health, and gone home to tell his friends how much good the Harrogate waters had done him. Further attention must be drawn to the fact recorded by Roth, of Wielbach, that Sulphuretted hydrogen entering the portal vein by diffusion attacks the iron of decaying blood corpuscles, and thus aids their destruction. And Dr. Oliver adds: The strong affinity for iron which the sulphur present in sulphides is well known to possess, as well as the clinical value of sulphur waters in congestive states of the liver and portal vein, favour this theory. He also quotes Professor Gubler, who says: Once having reached the blood, sulphur acts as a diffusible stimulant; it accelerates the circulation, raises the temperature, inflames the viscera, almost determines hemorrhages, causes headache, sometimes giddiness, in- creases cutaneous transpiration, and produces—when the dose is large and long continued—an appreciable febrile movement. The reader will note that Professor Gubler says when large and long-continued doses of sulphur are taken evil results may follow, and it is this point the author would particularly emphasize. The sulphur waters are excellent medicines if taken in suitable doses, and not continued too long. The experience of physicians for centuries has proved their value. THE DISEASES FOR WHICH THE HARROGATE TREATMENT IS SUITABLE. And in saying Harrogate treatment it does not mean that each patient must of necessity drink the waters. As has already been pointed out, there is at Harrogate such a large variety of treatments in the way of electricity, light, super heated baths, ordinary sulphur baths, massage, &c., that any