New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1870-02-17
fCouussiested-
HIGHLY IMPORTANT.


REPORTED DISCOVERY OF THE SOLVENT or
CALCULUS IN THESE wATERs--A STARTLING
THEORY OF MODERN DYSPEPSIA, CONSUME
TIoN, RHEUMATISM, GOVT, GRAVEL, AND
OTHER CHRONIC DIsEAsEs-ARE WE BEING
CONVERTED INTO STONE LIKE THE CARDIFF
GIANTf
GErTYsBURG, Pa, Feb. Is, 1904 discovery
has inst been made or rather been demonstrated
10 have been made In this vicinity, which promises to
once more attract the attention OF the world to this little
pennsylvania town and to with interest Its
historic soil refer that of tho solvent power Of ats
medlcated waters overt tho human calculus.
This announcem will cause millions OF newspaper
readers to inquire what Calculus for fully that proper
lion of oven tho reading public will not know tho mean
ing OF tho word or will attach to 1t It's limited signih
cation.
t. NAV DO WELL therefore, before referring to the evil
dence OF this discovery. to anticipate tho inquiry by
definition and explanation.
Calculus is disease or rather tho cause OF disease
and as an increasing number OF profound medical think
era and observers believe tho OF the larger proper
ton OF all tho diseases which act the civilized portion
tho Calculus Is not only stone In the bladder as
usually supposed but stone In the Kidneys In tho liver
In the bowels the stomach In tho heart In the lungs,
In the bronchial tubes the sides OF blood vessels ana
arteries along the muscles and aud around JOINTS
&C. &c and ia tho cause OF nearly all the maladies
which result from tho arrangement OF these essential
portions OF the vital machinery: ,,,- a., ..ao.
tions human system .,.,
b. fluid. Of the body deposit correction; most o. NE ves
the heart by the va che m0s'n IN the saSSss
They are the lungs. and ia the bronchial glands.
u govt" % S.d tan% S 1 u he lp SGsi
u.ry ps.ssges The san. writer says OF these Ci,9 when
they afterwards absorbed any solvent Tor them
Modern chemistry has disclosed the fact that the atoms
Of which ese stony c9nsre,o1s ARE Src result c
with the aikalics But neither chemistry nor anatomy
have satisfactorily explained why these combinations
take place IN the living body or how they reach the
parts where they frequently found But variety of
experiments seem TO Indicate that these combinations
are effected IN the blood aud other nndS. ny when the
resulting compounds or fine powders are sSchded ana
the combination rrogIesscT the oyeraneh hia clrGu
ation compelled TO deposit Its burden preel,ey US 'he
tutbid stream escapes from similar incuinbrhnce Oy
the deposition OF us sediment along its Sed anu S.u.s
10 he deposited obedience to different lava Instead
Of being deposited equally In different portions OF tng
system IL appears TO attracted ny M III,
fatal affinity to particular organs or localities
The dispositions varous forms and consistence,
according to circumstances aud location.
The protean agency Of calculus or OF s clements tho
acids In the production Of prevalent diseases. tus
Dr. Rober X stone of the NatIonai Metropolis This
planatlon is gwen II letter which tins gentleman
Eerapentc application Of the waters Of the cttysburg
KataiysiDo Spring. indicated by the analysis. He
"Tiey may generally all those IN which
oa proves hr and slesy p AMI a SS' S,is 81 A D
iarnshes striking examples .
a.smy CALI ~ ,hrosic srd Hgpocondfa n
prier oostrton erono oGsSn' Of The bronchial ses. eo.
might sho numsrate torpid or ergged state OF Tue "'e Offering
especially will the. aid AMI comor, to arg, class
ur'HaIy dso which s,I sod sl 4; sts'!e sa %i
yormG,on eaued by The preso aud 7rcesi Of these acids
s s.sl THIN TOO 10 g.q 4. rAsse,S caused S
waters may he depeed to g2es grea good 10 ''
dScgsf' 10 some asLtastg aaa e t Gsss o. 'n e &
. sI IT, saa the d'''''' '"'"N may "P'
no The se category must be added many diseases Of the heart
lungs aud oft vascular sttrrial aud
Such calculus lts nature, origin and effects on the
The mider forms OF diseases resulting FROM fcipient
CALCULUS from the Of the ucdsor floating urates
M the blood and other fluids may be s0bdued and the
calculus matter eliminated from the system by tho skill
fu OF OF the agents Of the macria medica. es
| pecally OF medicinal spring waters.
| But the ioin's which those maladies assume
after the full developments Of calculus, deposition 81
It's elements Renewable hut longer durable by
agents. for the simple reason that the latter
longer adequate TO the removal Of tho to the
solution and elimination from he system Of the extra
| ncous matter deposited.
binary solvent ns well ~ ihcrfprmuc bower Whcfher
stony formed ia the urinary organs,
Kidneys stomach, or heart ris first necessary to dis
solve them and 10 reduce th'1n to their original elements.
me n%% w, r III y ss pr IT, n"rs they S be
| The agent which would produce this result womb be
the solvent of Calculus for the disOvcry composition
Of which such various, pcrscyefng and frantic efforts
have been made by explorers in the field OF medical
science Perhaps it to the uteiSent aupre
citation OF the historic as wei rs scientific interest Witch
attaches to Tins discovery that should refer to some -
the past researches aud experiments this direction
These copimenCcd at very early PERIOD for Calculus is
spring Of i"lic ciy1aiion Of too much artificial LIE,
and reappears in human history with these eondi
tons society His. OF course. modified by circumi-
stances. climate soil The dreaded and ioathsone
cprosy the ancient civilized jews and AssYrlans Of
as the rheumatism aud govt of the modern nations OF
Europe and America, only the chaky calculus mat
ter assaed the cuticc skn instead or the joints and
muscles The same principle detected In many OF their
other diseases from tho descriptions given OF them by
writers. Accordingly the victims OF these
ancient civilizations Abandoned artificial medicines. as
nearly allied with tho which produced their
and sought those great apohecaries Uf nature
located In mountain gOges or desert AMI forest reeosses
the OILY relief for this class OF naades then as now
the springs did not always cure because sometimes SOL
vent well rs therapeutic power required for this
purpose Hence the search for the more perfect natural
medicine, or water of life
Whether in the remote antiquity. at o period ante
dating the oldest records such springs known and
resOrcd to- asserted by ancient traditions it idle
OF their location had been LOST by nations occupying
the countries where they alleged TO be found far
back as the commencement OF the CHRISTIAN era.
For, after the commencement OF tho new epoch,
VIC nd Ceius Aurelianus. Of the disciples OF Gacn
EXPERIMENTING on urinary calcun' with tho alkaline
The most remarkable modern researches after this
solvent nrc tho experiments with Lthia. Alexander
IRE OF London subj ccd removed urinary calculus
the action OF four grains ofhe Carbonate OF Ltha
Of distilled water at 96o for five hours, and found
that II had lost hyo grains IN weight Dr. Garrod OF
phaangal extremity OF which completely niltraed
with equity deposit Of Urate OF Soda. This placed
In small glass and few grains OF the Carbonate OF
Liha added, and in afew days tho whole deposit was
dissolved without having been heated"
Such were the purely scientific experiments which
predicated the excitement about nthia which
agitaed tho whole medical world. aud created ex
pectation In tho minds Of many enthusiastic members Of
tho profession OF The almost immediate advent OF the
medical millennium. But the enthusiasts had not con-
sdered tho possible difference between the results VI
scientific aud practical Apartments aud OF course
disappointed The iithia bubble, however, had dazzed
100 many visions to DO permitted ~ collapse without
further experiments