Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation: With an inquiry into the comparative merits of different mineral waters: the maladies to which they are applicable, and those in which they are injuriousJohnson, James
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Pilgrimages to the Spas in Pursuit of Health and Recreation: With an inquiry into the comparative merits of different mineral waters: the maladies to which they are applicable, and those in which they are injurious
Johnson, James
Balneology; Health resorts; Mineral waters
2. Diseased state of the mucous membranes, such as some obstinate
catarrhs, affections of the mucous coat of the bladder, uterus, &c.
3. Plethora, sanguineous congestions, crampy pains of the limbs, absent
or difficult menstruation, and the numerous morbid symptoms dependent
upon this state.
4. Torpor of the bowels, and its host of attendant evils.
“By means of its property of increasing all the secretions and excretions
of the body, and of bringing out cutaneous eruptions and gouty affections
to the limbs, the Kreuzbrunn waters at Marienbad are an excellent remedy
in numerous diseases which depend either upon a plethoric state of the
abdominal circulation, or upon the accumulation of impurities in the
bowels, or upon an unhealthy condition of the mucous membranes. At the
same time, they subdue the morbid irritability of the whole system, or of
individual parts; they remove congestions, plethora, and various evils
dependent upon these. They are especially useful in all cases where
Nature herself seems to be striving to induce either an increase of the
secretions, or a flow of blood from certain parts, as the nose, anus, &c.”
When the Marienbad waters do not prove sufficiently aperient, a small
portion of Glauber or Epsom salts may be added to it. In some cases, the
waters will agree better, if previously heated; and in others, they are
usefully combined with a little warm milk, or with a small portion of
wine.
Dr. Herzig is an attentive physician, who speaks English, and may be
usefully consulted by my countrymen. I have also to express my grateful
thanks to Dr. Heidler, the spa physician of Marienbad, for his kindness
and attention.
CARLSBAD.
——fælix per secula mana,
Fons sacer, humano generique salutifer esto,
Redde seni validas vires. Pavidæque Puellæ,
Formosam confer faciem, morbisque medere
Omnibus, et patrias accedat lætior oras,
Quisquis in hæc lympha fragiles immerserit artes.[66]
Sacred Font! flow on for ever,
Health on mankind still bestow—
If a virgin woo thee—give her
Rosy cheeks and beauty’s glow:—
If an old man—make him stronger—
Suffering mortals soothe and save—
Happier, send them home, and younger,
All who quaff thy fervid wave!
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