Schinznach in Switzerland : its situation and therapeutic advantages / by Dr de Tymowski ; with a preface by Arthur Hassall.

  • Tymowski, J.
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[1886]
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Credit: Schinznach in Switzerland : its situation and therapeutic advantages / by Dr de Tymowski ; with a preface by Arthur Hassall. 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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    At a later date and as advances were made in analytical chemistry, greater attention came to be paid to the constituents contained in the water and the character and amount of these proved in many cases to be so considerable as to entitle the waters to be called Mineral Waters and these constituents endowed them, even when externally applied in the form of hot or cold baths, with distinct, therapeutical properties and effects. To this more extended use of Water in the cure of disease, the term Balneotherapy has been applied. Still more recently a further very im- portant step was taken in Water Treatment; thus, waters simple and mineral of different kinds, both cold and hot came to be administered internally and this in many cases with very striking results. The Salts and substances, chiefly the former, contained in mineral waters, are