Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr.

  • Kerr, John George Douglas.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Popular guide to the use of the Bath waters. With hints on climate, lodgings, hotels, etc.; full instructions for bathing and drinking the waters; with special chapters on the new massage douche baths; thermal vapour treatment; and massage in its relation to balneology / by J. G. Douglas Kerr. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    applied to the surface of the body held in solution by a thermal water—of restoring pliability to joints stiffened by attacks of gout and rheumatism, and also of relieving paralysis. The quantity of free nitrogen evolved from the Bath springs amount to 259 cubic feet daily, being nearly 97 per cent, of the total gaseous matter yielded by them ; a proportion unequalled by any other spring in Europe. It is difficult to explain the precise manner in which free nitrogen acts on the animal economy in health and disease. It has been asserted Nitrogen, that nitrogen is as necessary to exalt and hasten the action of the healthy building up of muscular and other tissues, as hydrogen is to assist the action of oxygen upon the giving of animal heat to the body. When we consider the large quantity of the gas which is at all times present in the blood, and in the organs and tissues of the body, and that no dietary scale, however rich in other ingredients, will support life for any length of time without a due proportion of nitrogen, we must conclude that it plays a very important part in the maintenance of health. Experience has proved that whenever a mineral water contains free nitrogen its administration will prove beneficial in gout and rheumatism, and that the amount of benefit derivable, other things being equal, will be in direct proportion to the amount of the gas which the water contains. Dr. Sutro, writing on