The Madisonian. [volume] (Washington City [i.e. Washington, D.C.]) 1837-1845, 1840-11-10
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WHITE SULPHUR SPRINGS, GREEN-
| w BRIER COUNTY, VIRGINlA.-The hgh
reputation which the waters OF these springs nave eo
qured in the prevention and Of Diseases and as
pleasant and wholesome beverage, has long rendered
il object of peculiar interest in the public mind
The healing virtues which they possess have been
known since the earliest period of the settlement Oh
the country in which the spring is situated and ever
since II has been the iayorlte resort OF all suc nNa
lids could avail themselves Of its health restoring m
huences The reputation Of these waters has m
creased in the same rapid proportion with which they
have been known, until they have attained point OF
celebrity equal of the springs OF Europe
and far exceeding that which any other in the U.
States has attained celebrity as just as Il Is extern
siye and which annually induces thousands OF eager
seekers after health from the most remote parts OF the
Union, TO pay their deyoions TO tins heaith-gving
fountain.
Extensive experience for many years in the use OF
the White Sulphur Water after having been long re-
moved from the spring and kept In bottles and barrels
has clearly and fully demonstrated that II may DC
transported to any distance, and kept for any desired
length of time without the slightest deterioration OF
medical virtues and efficiency Aware of this fact,
and anxious that the public might enjoy the use OF
this water, without the necessity OF visit to the
Springs, many physicians and others familiar with their
great efficacy have for years urged the owner OF the
Springs To permit the water 10 he transported through
the country for general In compliance with these
solicitations company has been recently formed to
accomplish that object by bottling and barelng the
water for general transportation And they hope, 10y
thus extending 10 the vaetudnaran who cannot reach
the springs the advantage Of using ITS healing waters
at his home and by bringing within the reach of
all this pleasant and health giving beverage that they
rendering a service that will be generally accepia
bile To the public.
The undersigned, propretors ofthis enterprise, think
proper TO inform the public that the exclusive right OF
bottling and transporting these waters is secured TO
them and that those desiring the water may rely upon
receiving il from them and their appointed agents IN
WM b. CALWELL & co.
~ The diseases for which the White Sulphur
Water has been most celebrated and actively useful
are the following Dyspepsia liver complaints, bilious
state Of the system, chronic rheumatism neuralgia
properly called and nervous affections generally
costiyeness jaundce calculus, chronic affections Of
the kidneys, chronic inflammation of the bladder,
geet hemorrhoids piles, hypochondriasis or low
spirits, dependent on arrangements of the stomach
and liver spasmodic affections unattended with fever
water brash, sdiarrhGa chronic dysentcry, general
debility, unattended with acute disease In chorosis
and other similar affections peculiar TO females this
water has almost invariably displayed most happy and
triumphant results In that enfeebled and peculiar
condition Of the system resulting from the long pro
tracted injudicious Of mercury and in the
secondary symptoms of renereai disease often connect
ed with this peculiar state Of the system, the White
Sulphur Water has displayed its very happiest effects
In profuse salvation from mercury all reliance may be
placed upon IT, In cutancous diseases, or obstinate
eruptions the skin, perhaps internal remedy can
be used advantageously In ill conditioned ulcers its
curative effects have long been known and appre
clated.
For more particular account of the medical app-
cabity of this water sc. reference is made to the
" Directory" lately published by DR. Moorman, the
resident physician at the springs, and which will ge
morally be found in the hands of the vendors Of the
water.
ofthc many testimonials received from distinguished
medical men Of the great efficacy of these waters is
thought unnecessary TO insert than the follow
nS from the able and distinguished Professor of Sur
gerry in the University of Pennsylvania
PHILADELPHIA Jan. %, 1889.
Having visited repeatedly the White Sulphur
Springs, Greenbrer county, Virginia. aud remained
there several weeks at time, engaged in practice,
with the view Of ascertanng the effects of the water
upon the numerous invalids resorting that region
from every part of the United States ! can declare
with great confidence the result of large share OF
experience that the beneficial effects have arisen
from its in various dyspeptc depraves, in simple
and complicated disorders of the liver in distractions
and other arrangements of the kidneys in aggravated
forms of cutaneous Diseases and in other morbid de-
velopmcnts, the result of constitutional or local
WILLIAM GIBSON NJ. D.,
Professor of Surgery in the University of Penn.
supply of the above water put up at the Springs
the LIST of the present month, this day received and
for sale by
JOSEPH L. PEABODY,
Centre Market Space agent for the District of Co
lumbia June 2o-lm'