Medical guide to the alkaline, sulphurated, iodurated and bromurated Marlioz waters near Aix (Savoy) : chemical composition of the Aesculapius spring, its curative effect in some affections, chiefly in lymphatism, scrofula, syphilis, skin and lung diseases : with remarks on the possibility of extending the hydrologic treatment to the indigent / by Dr. Macé ; translated by John P. Leonard.

  • Macé, Dr.
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[between 1870 and 1879]
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Credit: Medical guide to the alkaline, sulphurated, iodurated and bromurated Marlioz waters near Aix (Savoy) : chemical composition of the Aesculapius spring, its curative effect in some affections, chiefly in lymphatism, scrofula, syphilis, skin and lung diseases : with remarks on the possibility of extending the hydrologic treatment to the indigent / by Dr. Macé ; translated by John P. Leonard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    CHAPTEK II. HISTORICAL NOTICE ON MARLIOZ. The Christopher Columhus of the Marlioz Spring was not a native of Savoy, as it might he supposed, hut a Spaniard, Chevalier de Gimhernat, a learned chemist of the Academy of Sciences at Munich, and author of several scientific works, among which we shall notice his researches on haregine, which he considered as an organic substance having the cha- racteristics of the oscillaires, and which for that reason he called thermal zoogen. The sulphurous rivulet of Marlioz, flowing down the slope of the hill towards the valley, betrayed the nature of its waters by a sulphydric odour, and by a whitish deposit left on the stones and the grass it flowed over. But, except a few peasants affected by wen, scrofulous and herpetic diseases, attracted to those springs by tradition, or a sort of instinct, they were otherwise almost unknown. Chevalier de Gimhernat, in his excursions in the environs of Aix, discovered this spring, neglected until then, though it was later ascertained that in sulphurous principles it was, compared to those of