Richmond enquirer. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1815-1867, 1825-07-05
To The Editors of the Eao,,irer.

We regret that have for the article here
lsded to. II shall appear hereafter. Editors
To The Editors Of the Enquirer
The following is tire copy of letter, addressed
by an eminent physician in this state, to gentle
man who had sought his advice relative to the use
OF the Virginia Mineral waters. | think it so i'm
portant, that feel anxious for its publication; be-
lieving that it may be useful to many persons. /
therefore send it to you with request that it may
appear in your paper.
.uly 80, 1928
Dear Sir: most willingly comply with the re-
quest contained in yours of the 2Ist which came
10 hand yesterday; and fater myself that the fol-
following general directions will be found useful to
yourself and others visiting the Virginia springs
They are certainly the most valuable mineral wa
tiers in the world, and judciously used, have rarely
failed to remove the several symptoms, OF which
you complain. (Dyspepsia, liver complaint and
catarrhal affection of The breast depending on these
Visitors are apt TO commence with an immode-
rate quantity of the water soon as they arrive
have generally advised my friends to begin with
five six glasses in each morning. and gradually to
increase the quantity TO eight or ten. If this guam
uty does not have the desired effect the bowels,
1t viii be proper TO add teaspoon full OF common
table salt, Glauber salts, the first and second
glasses. This generally makes the water sufficient
iy active and If 1t does not, it will be necessary to
take 10 or IL grains of Calomel at bed time and to
more active as directed above The Calome may
be repeated once or twice in the week or whenever
any pain or ughtness about the head, or about the
region OF the liver, may indicate its have fire.
quently ordered 1t, too, when the waters procured
sufficient number Of passages, but these were thin
and watery, contsIng btu little fecuent or bilious
matter. The Calamel will sometimes be found
necessary after using the water for ten days or a
fortnight, when some pain in the head and flushing
in the cheeks may be observed, more especially
when little attention has been paid to regimen, By
attending these directions the use of the waters
may be continued for several weeks without inter-
mission.
1t you 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 attention
10 diet Is neccssary-use animal food sparngly, and
that only once in the day-avoid butter pastry and
highly seasoned food-take no spirits, W inc or fer
mented liquors--never 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 he addition of the table salt or
GlaubeT salts, to the first glass or two absolute
ly necessary If they do not act on the bowels
The addition of the table salt makes this delicious
water similar and equal to the Saratoga water. The
Warm Spring bath may be adyantageously employ
ed alter due course OF purgation by the sulphur
waters During my residence at the Warm Springs,
drank the usual quantity OF that water with ad-
vantage. 1t should in all cases be used, warm as it
comes from the spring
might here dismiss you, but so many do away
the benefits derived from the uplur and other wa
tiers, after hey leave the springs-that think pro-
per TO advise you to continue yonr strict regimen and
| TO keep your bowels open until the winter sets in
! When first returned from the springs, found
myself nearly bilious / was before / visited
the mountains. The next trip made, was more
cautious took every morning during my journey,
tea spoonful Of table salt ard the quantity oil
Glaubers or Epson salts, in glass Of common wa
ter, and repeated the dose in ten or fifteen minutes
j found that one glass not sufficient. Ibis habit
l have kept up occasionally, TO this day, whenever
| l found my bowels slow. After each drsught ofthe
salt and salts, have generally taken half pint OF
PINT oil common spring water and find this quantity
VIII give one ortwo loose passages IN the course oil
the day Under this course too, you NAV find If
| necessary to throw in occasionally 10, IL or ] 3
grains Of Calome when the passages are watery, and
do not afford relief if your liver disease has been as
mine has been of long standing. II is TO this dis
ease that ! ascribe your Dyspeptic and Catarrhal
| symptoms. When the lungs are primarily affected
little benefit can be expected from the use of the
water or from the mountain air In such cases
have generally advised regular and long continued
exercise at an equal distance from the mountains
and the coast.
am, very respectfully, yours &c.
| y. ). In advising the Calomel it is by no means
our wish TO bring salvation Iii rot necessary
to push it 50 ar--and when the mouth is in the least
degree affected by it, it should not be repeated