The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1870-03-19
THE GEfTYsBURG MEDICAL ExPEhI-
MENTS.

Conf rmatiOn OF the NepOrtcd DiScoNery OF
the solvent of Calculus.
Correspondence Of the Nev Tork Herald ard T,fsuns
There seems to be no longer any doubt that the
solvent Of calculus has been discovered in Amori.
can spring.
A Gettysburg correspondent OF the Neto FORK
Herald thus ioreshadows this discovery:
"GctJ sburg, but few years since, was place
hardly known beyond the limits Of tile State in
which It lies; an obscure homo Of primitive people.
without any especial claim TO the worlds notice.
The channels and avenues Of trade and travel In
these days OF steam ignore those ancient necessities
iha; dcpend upon the cou1guration Of the oarihs
Iurfacc. Railroads and electric tclesraphs pass in
straight lines under mountains or over them, regard
ing only the shortest way to their destination and
nom this fact the little burgh OF the fertile Pennsyl
rama basin had been Lot out Of the great trade
maps
But there came day when steam was laid aside
when war went back on our modern civilization, ms
The philosophical slang phrase has it-and when com
merce aud everything Else depended on tie move.
monts OF men carried forward on their own feet, or
by the feet Of horses. Chen 1t Happened that two
armies striking from Nir-i for the heart Of
nnsyyabia, found that their lines Of march ime
together at Getty sburs. AT Gettysburg, therefore
they met In three days of terrible ed collision
aud from that day the quiet, picturesque villa G be
came a famous place IN our history
But there is another reason likely to give Il inter
ost-the aiscoNerl there Of a medical sp,ng OF rare
virtue. The chemical constituents o. tie waters Of
this spring, and the dy obse we'd effects Of the
OF these waters, promise to give the Gctysburg
spring. reputation greater than tIdt Of any other In
this country. and not second to that held bv such
famous sources in Europe MarienUal. kis-in zen.
and Viriy Maeneta, lime htia, and soda, in
comhhIiiou with c'rbonc aciJ, are the main bodies
by We gut; but Of tdese liia II tie most important
substance rns ia all urolibl ity gives tho wafer
its peculiar virtue; Tor tins Is the 90 IS whose IRE
sence enables tie system TO throw out cert IN
posors that % /. otherwise Impossible to eliminate
Certain -auic 81 stances taken In With the iuod
make conliudiOns In the system that are iu.olu.
bic, and these cumOlnItiOns are deposited by tie
blood In the various tissues Soc lied chalS stones
found In the joints ana the stones that are 80 often
present Ia tno bladder, are familiar instances OF
these
correspondent of the Ns,c York TiiJme, re-
gently writing IRON the same place, reerates the
announcement, ofIhis discovery, and cites additional
testimony. lis remarks about calculus are IN.
teresting:
Celcuus is disease rather the cause OF disease,
and, As an increasing number o. pro 'oun meiic
thinkers ana observers believe. tue cause OF the
larger proportion OF all the diseases which act the
civilized portion of the r &C Calculus Is not only
the stones OF gravel, as usually supposed. but stone
In the kidneys, in the Liver, In the how els In the
stomach in the heart, In the lungs in the bronchial
tubes. the siucs OF blood vessels and Arteries,
along the muscles and nerves, and around joints
&c, &C. aud is the cause OF nearly MI the malades
which resu, from arrangement Of these essential
portions Of vital machinery.
The American Encyclopedia assigns TO calculus
still more extensive ramilcationS in tue human sys
lem. These abnormal concretons result from q
combination OF the acids with the alkas. Wher
ever uric acid is present In there danger OF
calculus, II It's elements do dread exist 10 the
blood, or other fluids ia the form OF tine sand OF
stony matter ready for deposition, probably in the
weakest parts OF the system.
The Froteon agency of cal culus or OF It's elements
.he acids, IN the production Of our prevalent dis
,ases, i thus graphically skctched By an eminent |
American physician, Dr. Robert X. Stone. OF the
rational metropolis Tns explanation il given In q
.ettcr which this gentleman addressed a friend In
reply to an inquiry to the therapeutic application
'f the waters Of the Gettys6ur, Klta'y-lnc Spring,
n indicated by the analysis. lie writes
THE, may he used generally in all those cases in
which an cActss Of rcid proves iurtfu and unhealthy
Thus IN th,-o cases OF acid dvspoTsl whioa our |
toultry Of hot bread aul coffee mug propensites
furnishes 20 many striking examples. |
Thus they could be used ~ many cases Of dis |
sac III lut Hloudcu u, OF CHROME
LtH'lh- h'I ure, We migm mention lhe attendants
nYon dy-pypsla - chronic b ne devils and hypo- |
ehondria H. some cases Il chOrp- in young girls.
u,pehleht upon d! stet 10 ana peculiar distinctions;
chronic affection 81 tie d. Oncl il tubes. CurOnr |
satarrh Of The head ani throat W.h dyspepsia 0. |
certain class "e might also enunerate torpid on |
shgoT-,d -l-'e Of the liver, differing from nypoeOn
" But most o-pccialy will they give aid and con. |
iortto large dos o. urinary diie.,e M wich lid.
r"i are slducr are rAecied, and lieu are Dc. |
pendent upon an excess Oi uric or tliC acii T
700 Tie tsNgl formations caused by the prcseLc, |
snd e'ee,- of csc acids, |
IN ili, a-,. a. tcity tie urinary (bladdcr an
kidnc} aH'D'Ion- II Will prove very u.r.ul The |
too, IN SOU or tlcumstism caused Is The urcsoac,
ANA excess OF ihere sane acids Ia the system aud
cIrtiu- !our water be Qcptu lei uIuu to pru.
duee great good Ia scro.Uons disc .scs. IN soue |
distressing and rome di-case- ui the sku-Of H.,
latter, iur example tuc distressing chronic eczCmI
We may hope 'or beneficial results |
RIo The slime category might be added many dis. |
caste o the heart and lungs and OF TIC vascular OF
hTcrill and nervous systems. |
Tie nilder forms Of diseases resulting from Incl |
pient calculus, from the excess OF the acids or |
floating ura,es in the blood and other fluids may be
subduel aud the Calcuous matter eliminated from |
the s. item by tie skul use OF some OF the agents
OF thc miora medica, especially OF mt dlclal splin
water. |
Iui Tie sew crcr forms which those maladics assume
Eucr the ull development OF calculus, deposition
Of It's elements, renewable but no longer curab,
by these agents, for the simple reason that the |
latltId 40 longer alcqua'c 10 the removal of the |
cause or TO the solution and elimination from the
system OF the extrIneous matter deposited.
These incurbe diseases constitute at once the
Teproach of The medical profession sud the tcrro-
VI our modern civilization
Such Is calculus, ts nature orig Il, and effects OIL |
the human organism.
lis solvent would be any agent which, ifintroduced
nto the stomach, or brought into contact with cal.
,uiou- deposits, would reduce them to their orina
slen"u-, 30 that they might be taken up by the al.
hoIhenis ~ eScrcoy organs and dispersed or dis |
CHARGED.
The solvent ofcalculu' would also necessarily be |
preventive Of lis formation
The discovery or composition OF this semi-chcml |
sal and theropeuca agent was, previous to the dis.
;o'cry Of tie Gottytburs Spring an unsoyed ined |
sH problem, but not at uuNexed one.
rerlap- some account Of past researches and OK |
PerIme"'s IN quest OF such solvent may prove in.
!erts'ug 90 YOU readers.
These commenced At very early period, for cal. |
eulus /. not modern pathological, development II |