It may also be considered a marked compliment to the medicinal properties of the waters, that the thousands who come here for pleasure merely, living fast and indulging in dissipation while here, return to their homes in better health--as they almost always do--than when they came. Unlike certain other springs, whose wonderful properties and vaunted cures are found in pompous advertisements, the Saratoga waters have not made their celebrity by printer's ink. Their reputation has depended upon their own intrinsic merits, and steadily and surely has their renown advanced. To repeat all the disorders which they have been known to benefit, would be very nearly to copy the sad list of ailments to which our creaky frames are subject. In short, spring water is good for the stomach, good for the skin, good for ladies of all possible ages, and for all sorts and conditions of men. Individual Characteristics. In stating the special properties of the individual springs, we have conscientiously endeavored to make this work as reliable and accurate as possible. Those who are familiar with the reputation and claims of some of the several springs in past years will notice many changes, but it is believed that the information herein given is on the best authority, and brought down to the latest date. _The Analyses of the Saratoga Waters, by C.F. Chandler, Ph.D., of the Columbia School of Mines._ ---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Compounds as they exist | Star | High | Seltzer | Pavilion| United in Solution in the Waters. | Spring. | Rock | Spring. | Spring.| States | | Spring. | | | Spring. ---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Chloride of sodium | 398.361 | 390.127 | 134.291 | 459.903 | 141.872 Chloride of potassium | 9.695 | 8.974 | 1.335 | 7.660 | 8.624 Bromide of sodium | 0.571 | 0.731 | 0.630 | 0.987 | 0.844 Iodide of sodium | 0.126 | 0.086 | 0.031 | 0.071 | 0.047 Fluoride of calcium | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. Bicarbonate of lithia | 1.586 | 1.967 | 0.899 | 9.486 | 4.847 Bicarbonate of soda | 12.662 | 34.888 | 29.428 | 3.764 | 4.666 Bicarbonate of magnesia | 61.912 | 54.924 | 40.339 | 76.267 | 72.883 Bicarbonate of lime | 124.459 | 131.739 | 89.869 | 120.169 | 93.119 Bicarbonate of strontia | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | 0.018 Bicarbonate of baryta | 0.096 | 0.494 | Trace. | 0.875 | 0.909 Bicarbonate of iron | 1.213 | 1.478 | 1.703 | 2.570 | 0.714 Sulphate of potassa | 5.400 | 1.608 | 0.557 | 2.032 | Trace. Phosphate of soda | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | 0.007 | 0.016 Biborate of soda | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace.