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.
Date:
[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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    THE RANK OF MARLTOZ IN THE MINERAL SPRINGS. From analysis .given of the Marlioz Waters, in what hydrologic sections should they be placed? A proper classification remains to be made, and hydrologic science has not yet found its Linne or its de Jussieu. Scientific men are far from agreeing on what is requisite for classifying a mineral water. Chemists pretend that it is the basis that should 'determine the class in which a mineral water should be placed ; others maintain that it should be the acid, because, they say, it gives the water a more im- portant character than the basis does, and they consequently suppress the ferruginous waters as a class, and disseminate them into different groups, according to the nature of the acids. To show the difficulty of classifying the waters, let us fake, for instance, one by Mr. 0. Henry, when he made liis researches on the congelation of mineral waters. He divides them in four groups : The first is called Saline Water; it comprises chlorurated springs, as Bourbon-1’Archiambault and Bourbonrie ; Sulphated Waters, as those of Yitel and Contrexeville; iodated and iodo-broinurated waters, as Saxon and Bondoneau.