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Chapter I. Mineral Waters In General
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Early Use of, &c., &c. — Experience the only Guide in the Administration — Medical Efficacy, &c. — Modus Operandi, &c.— Length of Time to be Used, &c.— General Remarks on Administration, &c., &c 25
CHAPTER n.
MINERAL WATERS IN GENERAL CONTINUED.
Resemblance to Mercury, &c. — Errors and Abuses of Mineral Waters, &c., &c. — Liability to Error in Reference to Sulphur Waters — Changing from Spring to Spring — Dress — Diet — Exercise, &c., &c 44
Chapter III
Use of Medicines and Different Mineral 'Raters — Prescribing Mineral Waters. ... 63
Chapter IV. Virginia Springs
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Routes to the Virginia Springs '. 73
Chapter V. White Sulphur Springs
Location and General Cliaracteristics — Its Strength Uniformly the Same — Does not Lose its Strength by Parting with its Gas — Does not Deposit its Salts when Quiescent — Its Gas Fatal to Fish — Its Early History — Known to the Indians as a "Medicine Water" — Fu'st Used by the Whites in 1778 — Progress of Improvement and Present Condition — Analysis of Mr. Hays and Professor Rogers. . 77
Chapter VI
The Relative Virtues of the Saline and Gaseous Contents of the White Sulphur Water 91
Chapter VII. General Directions For The Use Of The White Sulphur Water
Directions Meant to be General, not Specific — Must not Look to the Sensible Operations of the Water for its Best Eifects — Moderate or Small Quantities Generally Preferable—The Best Time for Takinor it— Leno-th of Time for
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which it should be Used — Necessary Preparations of the System for the Use of the Water — Sensible Medicinal Effects of the Water— Effects on the Pulse— Synopsis of Kules to be Observed — Use of Baths 106
-CHAPTER YIII.
DISEASES IN" WHICH THE WHITE SULPHUR WATER MAT, OR MAY NOT, BE USEFULLY TRESCRIBED.
ua — Gastralgia — Water Brash — Chronic Gastro-En- -teritis — Diseases of .the Liver — Jaundice — Enlargement of the Spleen — Chronic Irritation of the Bowels — Costiveness — Piles — Diseases of the Urinary Organs — Chi-onic Inflammation of the Kidnej^s — Diabetes. FemaU Diseases : Amenorrhosa — Dysmenorrhoea — Chlorosis — LucorrhcEa — Clironic Affections of the Brain — ISTervous Diseases — Paralysis — Some Forms of Chronic Diseases of the Chest, or Breast Complaints, (to be avoided in Pulmonary Consumption,) — Bronchitis — Chronic Diseases of the Skin, Psoriasis, Lepra, Ill-Conditioned Ulcers — Rheumatism and Gout — Dropsies — Scrofula — Mercurial Diseases-^ Erysipelas — Kot to be Used in Diseases of the Heart, or in Schirrus and Cancer 124
Society and its Amusements at the White Sulphur 193
Chalybeate Spring at the White Sulphur . . . 198
WARM SPRU^GS.
Analysis — Time and Manner of Using — Diseases for which Employed, &c., &c = 254
Chapter XV. Healixg Springs
Histor}' and Description — Therapeutic Action — Diseases for which it may he prescribed, &c., &c 261
CHAPTER XYI.
ROCKBRIDGE ALIJ:*I SPRINGS.
Early History and Description — Analysis and BemarTcs on Analysis — The Xame Alum a Misnomer, &c. — Therapeutic Effects of the Waters — Diseases in which they are Employed — Their Excellent Effects in Scrofula, (fcc, &c. . 269
CHAPTER XYII.
BATH A L r il SPRINGS.
Analysis — Diseases and States of the System in which they may be Prescribed 289
CHAPTER XVIII.
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Rockbridge Baths 295
Daggar's Springs. 298
Cold Sulphur Springs 300
Stribling Springs 301
CHAPTER XIX. .
Rawley's Springs 305
Burner's Springs, or Seven Fountains , 307
Jordan's "White Sulphur Springs 309
Shannondale Springs 312
CHAPTER XX.
BATH, OR BERKELEY SPRINGS.
Early History — Extract from General Washington's Will, &c. — Bath and Bathing Houses— Medicinal Properties of
the Waters — Diseases for which Used, &c 314
Orrick's Springs 323
Capon Springs 323
CHAPTER XXI.
Coiner's Black and W^hite Sulphur 328
Roanoke Red Sulphur 330
Blue Ridge Springs 331
Alleghany Springs 337
Montgomery White Sulphur Springs 341
CHAPTER XXII.
YELLOW SPKINGS.
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Pulaski Alum Springs 344
Grayson Sulphur Springs 350
Holston Springs 352
CHAPTER XXIII.
Fauquier White Sulphur .• 354
Buffalo Springs 356
Huguenot Springs , 360
Kew London Alum Springs 361
CHAPTER XXIV.
SPRINGS OF KENTUCKY.
Harroclsburg — Rochester — Olympian — Blue Lick — Estill . . . 365 CHAPTER XXY.
MINERAL SPRINGS. OF OHIO.
Ohio White Sulphur — Its History, Improvements, &c., &c. —
Analyses — ]\Ieclicinal Adaptations, &c., &c 371
Saline Chalybeate Spring 382
Yellow Spring 383
Westport Spring 384
CHAPTER XXYI.
SPRINGS OF TENNESSEE.
White's Creek Spring— Robertson's— Winchester—Beersheba — Montvale — Tate's — Lee's Sulphur and Chalybeate — Alum Springs — Warm Springs on the French Broad 385
CHAPTER XXYII.
SPRINGS OF KOKTH CAROLINA.
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Warm and Hot Springs of Buncombe — Shocco Springs — Jones' White Sulpliur and Chalybeate — Kittrell's Springs 391
CHAPTER XXVIII.
SPRINGS OF SOUTH CAROLINA.
Glenn's — West's— Springs in Abbeville and Laurens District, &c. — Chick's Springs — Williamstown Springs — Artesian Well in Charleston, &c 396
CHAPTER XXIX.
SPRINGS IN GEORGIA.
Indian — Madison — Warm Springs — Gordon's — Catoosa Springs 399
CHAPTER XXX.
SPRINGS OF ALABAMA.
Bladen Springs — Bailey's — Tallahatta Springs 401
CHAPTER XXXI.
SPRINGS OF MISSISSIPPI.
Cooper's Well— Ocean Springs 403
CHAPTER XXXII.
SPRINGS OF ARKANSAS.
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WashitaHot Springs 408
Springs of Florida 417
CHAPTER XXXIII.
MINERAL SPRINGS OF NEW YORK.
Saratoga and Ballston Group — Congress — ^Putnmn — Pavillion — Union — High Rock — Iodine — Flat Rock — Hamilton Washington — Empire — At Ballston: Sans Souci — Low's Well— Park Well— New and Old Washington Springs- Sulphur Springs — Classification of Waters — Geological Position — Thermalization of Waters — Analyses of the Various Springs, &c., &c 419
CHAPTER XXXIY.
NEW TORK IVnNERAL WATERS CONTINUED.
Improper Uses of the Saratoga Waters and its Evils — Injurious Advice and Errors of Opinion as to the Nature and Use of Mineral Waters 433
Diseases for which the Saratoga Waters maybe Prescribed — Albany Artesian WeU — Reed's Mineral Spring — HaUeck's Spring, &c 436
CHAPTER XXXY.
NEW YORK SULPHUR SPRINGS.
Sharron Springs — Avon Springs 444
CHAPTER XXXyi.
NEW YORK SULPHUR AND ACIDULOUS SPRINGS.
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Ciifton Springs — Manlius Springs — Cliittenango — Messina Sulphur Springs — Manlius Springs- — Auburn Springs — Chappiqua Springs — Spring at Troy — Newburg Springs — Springs in Dutcliess and Columbia Counties — Catskill Spring — ISTanticoke Spring — Dryden Spring — Rochester Spring — Springs in Monroe County : Gates, Mendon and Ogden — Yernon Springs — Saquoit Springs — Springs in Niagara County — Seneca or Deer Lick • Spring — Oak Orchard Acid Spring — Acid Spring at Clifton 456
CHAPTER XXXVn.
MINERAL SPRINGS OF PENNSYLVANIA.
Bedford — Frankfort — Chalybeate Spring near Pittsburg — York Springs — Carlisle Springs — Perry County Springs — Doubling Cap and Chalybeate Springs — Fayette Springs — Bath Chalybeate Springs— Blossburg Spring— Ephrata Springs— Yellow Springs— Caledonia Springs 468
CHAPTER XXXYIII.
MINERAL SPRINGS OF VERMONT.
Clarendon Gasoous Springs — Newberry Sulphur Springs — Highgate Springs — Alburgh Spring 482
CHAPTER XXXIX.
SPRINGS OP MASSACHUSETTS.
Hopkinton Springs— Berkshire Soda Spring 484
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CHAPTER XL.
MIXEEAL SPRINGS OF ?\EW JERSEY AKD IIAINE.
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Scliooley's Mountain Spring 486
Saline Liibec Spring in Maine — Dexter Chalybeate Spring. . 488
CHAPTER XLI.
MINERAL AND THERMAL WATERS BETWEEN THE MIS- SISSIPPI AND THE PACIFIC OCEAN.
In California — Oregon — Kansas — New Mexico — Nebraska— Utah, &c., &c 489
CHAPTER XLII.
Table Exliibiting the Thermalization of the.Various Warm and Hot Springs of the United States and its Territories. . 500
CHAPTER XLIH.
MINERAL SPRINGS OF C-:^'ADA.
Caledonia Springs — Charlottesville Spring — St. Catharine's Artesian "Wells— Yarennes Springs— St. Leon Springs— Plantagenet Spring— Caxt on Spring. . . 501
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