Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1825-07-28
MINERAL wArsRs Of VIRGINIA..

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and useful at this par ocular season. We copy
it from the Enquirer.
Dear Sri most willingly COM
ply with the request contained in yours
ofthe alst. which came TO hand yester-
day; and fla,ter myself that TO follow
general directions will be found useful
10 yourself and others visiting the Virgi-
MIA springs, They are certainly the
most valuable mineral waters in the
world, and judiciously used, have rarely
failed to remove the several symptoms,
of which you complain. Dyspepsia,
liver complaint and catarrhal affection
ofthe breast depending on these.)
Visitors are apt to commence with an
immoderate quantity of the water as
soon as they arrive. | have generally
advised my friends to begin with five or
six glasses in eaohmorn'ng, s. gradually
TO increase the quantity to eight or ten.
Ifthis quantity does not have the desi-
red effect on the bowels, it will be pro-
per to add tea-spoonlul Of common
table salt, or Glauber salts. to the first
and second glasses. This generally
makes tie water sufficiently active, and
if does not, it will be necessary to-
take 10 or 10 grains of Calomel at bed
time and to purge it of the next morn
ing by the water made more active as
directed above. The Calomel may be
repeated once or twice in the week or
whenever any pain or tightness about
the region of the liver, may indicate its
use. The Calomel viii sometimes be
found necessary after using the water
for ten days or fortnight, when some
pain in the head and flushing in the
cheeks may be observed, more espe-
cially when little attention has been
paid to regimen. BY attending to these
directions the use of the waters may be
continued for several weeks without in
Permission.
Ifyou have any rigors, or chill, from
the quantity drank in the morning, take
the first three or four glasses in bed and
take some exercise on foot whilst you
are drinking the remainder. A strict
atten ion to diet is necessary AMI
NAL food sparngly. ami that only once
in the day--avoid butter, pastry and
highly seasoned food--take no spirits,
wine, fermented liouors-neser Cypress
the stomach with food of any kind A
glass or two of the water when going
to bed, will prepare the bowels for the
quantity to be taken the next morning.
After using the white. salt or sweet
sulphur waters for some weeks the
Sweet Springs may be tried. They
are less purgative, and the addition Of
the table salt or Glanber's saults, to the
first glass ortwo, is absolutely necessary
if they do not act on the bowels. The
addition of the table salt makes this de-
licious water similar and equal to the
Saratoga water. The Warm Spring
bath may be advantageously employed
after due course OF purgaiion by the
sulphur waters During my residence
at the Warm Springs, ! drank the nsu-
al quantity OF that waterswith adyan-
tage. Ii should in all cases be used,
warm as il comes from the spring.
might here dismiss you but so many
do away the benefits derived from the
sulphur and other waters, after they
leave the springs-that | think proper
to advise you to Continue your strict
regimen s. to keep your bowels openun-
til the winter setsin.a When first re-
turned from the, springs, | found myself
nearly as bilious as was before vi
sited the mountains. The next trip
made, ! VAS more cautious--I took
every morning during my journey,
tea spoonful of table salt and the same
quantity OF Glauber's OF Epson salts.
in glass of common water, and re-
peated the dose in ten or iifteenminutes
if found that one glass was not sufii.
cient This habit | have keptgup occa
sionally, to this day, whenever found
my bowels slow. after each draught |
of the salt and salts, have generaliyta- |
ken a half pint or pint OF .common spring
water. Underthis course too, you may |
find 1t necessaryto throw in occasional. |
ly 10, II or 10 grains of Calomel il |
your liver disease has been, as mine |
has been, of long standing. tits to this |
disease that | ascribe your Dyspeptia |
and Catarrhal symptoms. When the |
lungs are primarily affected, little ben
eft can be expected IRON the use OF
the water or from the mountain air. In !
such cases have generally advised re-
gular and long continued exercise at an |.
equal distance from the mountains and
the coast
P. 5. In advising the Calomel it is
by no means our wish 10 bring on sail
vatiop II IL NOT neeessapv 10 n,lsh II |