Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1848-10-19

the medical faculty Of this benshted region OF
the vest and hence It is. that he ventures TO
oom up so large in the scientific atmosphere.
For presuming to question his claim TO the eIslt'
ed position he has appropriated to himself, we
shall doubtless be set down ssIonc OF the unsei.
entifc "skeptics" Of which the Doctor seems TO
have had some faint missivings. when he Penned
his article. And though we are very ready to
admit our great DEFICIENCIES, we hold that pros
found knowledge Of "lho laws Of chemical aim
iy," is by no means requisite TO the detection oil
the gross plumbers which the gentleman himself
has committed against that same code
His analytical table is laid off into eight spa
ces or compartments. In The first two under the
head of "Acids" we have "Muriatc" and "Car'
bonc." The next five under the head Bases"
we have Lime Soda-Msgnesia- Sulphur
Oxyde OF lron," and under the third head Of
Remarks" he gives US Of Iodine. He
goes on 10 say THE result Of my experiments
shows that the water Of the springs is composed
OF the four classes viz: Gaseous Chaly beae-
Saline and Suphurous, with temperature Of
600 F. T. The entire properties having run
into each other, produce greater temperature
than is found in ordinary Saline springs" &c.
We forbesr 10 criIicse the total want Of all cor.
rect photography wherever there is professional
term in which, by the way, considering this arts
Gle is intended for the unprofessional sick and
afflicted, i: most sinsuary abounds, because as
some one has said, the manner OF spelling a
word is a matter Of taste, besides it may possibly
though not probably have been the faul, Of your
composor. But to return 10 the matter OF the
article This same Benton White Sulphur
Spring is an anomoly and its entire properties
most singularly run together il Muriatic Acid
and Cabonic Acid are held in solution in tho
same water with Lime and Soda, wilhou, mu.
lua decomposition OF both the Bases and Acids.
| Ii Doctor Dunn will demonstrate this fact 10 US
1--WE will show him Bazolisk." But until we
have the ocular demonstration, he may tell it 10
the marines.
Are we also 10 understand that this spring
contains free Iodine, according as i. is stated in
the liable Of Properties?" If SO, this is an
other item in the history Of mineral waters that is
certainly new under the Sun. Water it is uue
will dissolve 1000 part OF Free Iodine; but Dr..
Dunn nor DR.. anybody else csn show US min
eral spring on the face Of the globe in which
Iodine in an uncouibined state can be detected.
The reason Of this is that free Iodine does no.
perhaps exist in nature, but has always to be sep.
araed from other substances, such as Pottassa-
Soda, &C., &C., with which it is always iou ID
in state Of combination But admit for argu.
ment sake, that it does exist in this water; will
he venture upon the authority ofhis profession"
TO promise improvement, much less permanent
cure, i" TO scrofuous patient, under less qian.
tity Than whole hogsheads full OF the beverage?
and as there is so much gas evolved, w,uld he
insure the patient against the perls Of explosion
during the time that heeis gulping down the enor-
nous quantity, necessary TO get few grains of
the substance into the inner mar? If he will,
he must place small value upon his own pro-
fessional reputation. Another valuable discove.
ry which Dr.. Dunn has made, u.s. that sulphurel.
ted hydrogen is a cure for dyspepsia. in fact. when
''Put into a little soda and iodine, (which is
sorbefaceent and tonic" it is a cure for nearly
all the ills that fish is heir 10. 1t is his Alpha
and Omega, and ye, strange 10 say, he seems TO
have holy horror Of the disgusting drugs pre-
scribed by The Doctors for their patients, who
are urged to fly as relief 10 this 'chrslial"
fountain, as the "sovereignest thing for an inward
bruise," in all The world besides. We wonder
the Doctor in the kindness OF his heart, had not
furnished those who may unfortunately no, be
able TO get to this Floridan fount, with recipo
Tor the extemporaneous manufacture OF The ari.
Gle. As this seems TO have been an omission.
we will say to such as may be dis posed to give
the salPhureted trial, that perhaps dish OF
we'll added eggs would come as near 10 il as any
thing else that could be imagined.
We presume Doctor Dunn, like tho Doctor in
Humphrey Clinker, considers This gass delicious
perfume, and when setting by The delightful spot.
witnessing the Operation" of dame nature, he
snuffs up the exhalent sweets with all the gus,o
that less refined nose would those which en,a>
male from bed Of violets. De gus,ibus non
es' &C., but for our own part. we should be any
thing else than delighted" with such an opefs.
1Ion. unless perchance we had cold in the head.
In conclusion, we would advise The w6ttby
proprietor OF this mineral spring, not to place
The least reliance upon the analysis Of its prop,
critics which has been published; but il he wish>
dan