Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. MINERAL WATERS IN GENERAL. Definition of Mineral Waters; Estimation in which they were held by the Ancient Greeks and Romans?Pains taken to analyze Mineral Waters in France?Advantages to be derived from Analysis of Mineral Waters?Mineral Waters abound in the United States?Want of Information both among Physicians and the Public in relation to Mineral Waters; Mistakes and Injuries that result from want of Information?The direct and active Influence of Mineral Waters?Modus Operandi of Mineral Waters; Must not always look to the immediate Effects of Mineral Waters for the production of the good they accomplish; the Alterative action of Mineral Waters generally their most efficient action?Mineral Waters not adapted to Acute Diseases; they are adapted to Chronic Diseases; should be perseveringly used, regarding their Effects, not the time that they may have been used?Mineral Waters are Stimulants; Difference with or without their Gases?Similarity between Mercury and Sulphur Waters?Errors often committed in the Use of Mineral Waters?The action of Mineral Waters may be modified or changed by different methods of using them?Changing from Spring to Spring?Dress?Diet and Exercise. Early use of, etc. etc.?Mineral waters rank among the ancient remedies used for the cure of disease. The Greeks, who in knowledge of medicine were superior to the nations who had preceded them, regarded natural medicated waters as a special boon of the Deity, and piously dedicated them to Hercules, the god of strength. They used them for drinking, and for general and topical bathing. Hippocrates was acquainted with the value and uses of various mineral waters, and many other Greek physicians, we are told, employed them for numerous diseases for which they are used at this day. With the Roma...