Du Pont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : report, analysis, and medical properties of its water : with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith.

  • Smith, J. Lawrence (John Lawrence), 1818-1883.
Date:
1859
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Credit: Du Pont's artesian well, Louisville, Kentucky : report, analysis, and medical properties of its water : with remarks upon the nature of artesian wells / by J. Lawrence Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    digestive canal, is sufficiently well established by the daily use which both man and animal make of saline substances. If taken moderately they excite the appe- tite, and are looked upon as a mild and efficacious aid to digestion; in still larger doses they excite in a more marked manner the entire mucous lining of the intes- tinal canal, extending to the liver; and, taken into the circulation, their effects are felt in all secretive and excretive organs, as the kidneys, etc. From what we can arrive at by the composition of this water, in con- nection with the known virtues of similar mineral waters, this water is certainly calculated to meet as large a variety of those diseased, who resort to mineral waters for relief, as any other known spring; for the great portion of invalids using mineral waters, suffer from some derangement of the mucous membrane of the in- testinal canal, or of the serous surface of the joints, embracing the various forms of dyspepsia and rheuma- tism. But we will proceed to specify the applicability of this water. # Dyspepsia. This single term implies a variety of diseases by which D - the digestive organs are impaired, and, although no one treatment can apply to them all, this mineral water will meet as large a variety of them as any other. In cases of dyspepsia, whether caused by irritation or weakness, the continued and judicious use of sulphur saline water frequently effects a cure, as in that relaxed condition of the mucous membrane in the stomach and intestinal canal of elderly persons, where a very large amount of mucous is secreted without a proper portion of the other healthy secretions; also, where the stomach has been deranged by excess of either eating or drinking. Costiveness Is a very frequent accompaniment of the above dfs- Cosiiveness. ease, or it may arise from a torpid condition of the in-