Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1871-1872, 1871-06-27
-spINNEYvILLE, W
Use Of Mineral Waters.

Inc use OF mineral waters ID, Compare
lively speaking, but little understood in this
country. They contain, when handled By
those who properly understand them. the
most surprisingly valuable remedial proper
ties, and work cures which appear to be,
literally, miraculous. At one of the famoGs
mineral springs, called Buxton, in Derby
shire, England, where there are several
springs hot and some cold-it is an
astonishing, as well as gratifying, sight to
see the large spring houses decorated inside
with large assortments of crutehes, slirgs
for limbs, and a variety of other surgical
inventions for the aid Of persons who are so
unfortunate as to become crippled by dis.
ease. These instrument served for the
support of their former owners, who had no
farther use for them after going through &
course Of the water cure, and 40 left them
behind them when they went away, "a CRATE.
ful, though somewhat grim, tokens of the
cure which had been worked for them in
those very spring houses. Buxton has, per.
haps, tie largest COLLECTION Of crutches to
show OF all the mineral water bathing places,
II ia an old establishment. But the other
springs, at Bath, Bristol, Scarborough, Mat
lock, Malvern, Tunbridge, Brighton, Kilburn,
Harrogate, Moffat, Mora, Tenburg, Chelten-
ham, Dunblane, Seidlitz, P~lombieres, AK
la Chapelle, and Engheim have also their
numerous trophies 10 display in accordance
with the nature of the cures which the pc
culiar virtues Of their several waters have
enabled them to perform, Ia NEST cases
the modUs operGHdi of applying the water
of mineral springs is not only by hydropath-
ic external treatment, but also by drinking
it, under the direction of the competent
PHYSICIANS who reside on the spot and make
q specially of the water cure at the various
mineral spring h~ydropsthic establishments.
1t is a very small portion of the old world
which contains the above vast number OF
springs most of them ore situated within
an hour or two's ride on the cars Of one au>
other, yet the manner in which they are
crowded, and the wonderful results they ac-
compiish is positive evidence that the iinme.
date, or available, presence of mineral
water is one of the greatest blessings that
the Creator ever conferred upon us. In
North Americs we heve instances of this il
the springs at Saratoga, Clifton, Buffalo,
Spring Lake, Frankfort, Arkansas, St
Catbsriue's, and Spinneyvilie,-the lat
ter being in our own vicinity. Ssr-
stags, Clifton, Springfield, Frankfort
Arkansas, Buffalo, and ST. Catlarine's have
long had their vo;aries; thousands of sick
people visiting them for the unfai!ing cure
Bnt some wonderful new springs have come
to the light of scientific knowledge, amongst
US, here, IN the West. Their are the springs
at Spinueyville, near Davenport, Iowa
These springs possess in q combined
form, in their waters, the virtues of most
other known mineral springs. Their waters,
taken internally, under medical supervision
and direction, are a most wonderful altera-
tive and deobstruent, gradually inducing a
change in the subject from 6 diseased to q
healthy condition, but without exciting sen,
sible excavations; they remove distractions
aud resolve tenacious viscidities which have
been, for years, unknown to the patient prob.
ably the only things which allied him. and
to gain relief from which he has been in the
habit of having recourse to drastic purga.
tives, and patent medicines-good enough
in their wsy-but wholly u~nsuited to his die.
order,-irritating through their ignorant and
improper exhibition, some of the ~viscera and
laying the foundation for the most distress.
ing diseases. The water of these springs
has been subjected to the most searching
chemical analysis; but the cures which
it has already worked for patients suffering
from internal disorders far surpasses the
brightest encomiuns passed upon it BY
chemists, bright though they be. We have,
however, so far, only viewed the Spinneyville
springs from one SIDE. The most startling
results of their use in Hydropathy, or as it
is commonly termed Water Cure, have been
in their copious and careful use on the out
side of the body5either locally or by positive
immersion. Nature, it appears, 10 the
bowels ofthe earth, has charged these waters
with that wonderful property known as
Magnetism, the greatest remedial agent o.
the day, and in many cases the only one
which is of the slightest uEe in the treatment
of . cute nervous and muscular diseases
diseases of the skin, diseases of the genera
tive organs, and the distressing
weaknesses to which ladies of delicate
constitutions, or health impaired
by other sickness or accidents, which causeI
are but too often kept secret, by the over
sensitiveness of the fair sufferers, until the,
gain strength and such powerful hold on tn
constitution as to eliminate in that ute
prostration which OF Itself often sn fi oes tt
prevent recovery,n n matter how skillfully tn
loca' Ailment may be treated are reliable. Tn
mineral springs at Spinneyville we're under
taken by DR.. Spinney, q most accomplished
physician, and a gentleman of culture ant
refinement, about twelve months ago sine
which time he has been occupied in sub
jecting them to the most rigid tests, boil
chemical and practical, and with result
which, as before limited, have surprised ever
himself, and the testimony of many grateful
patients who have already been reinstatet
in health by using the s~pinneyville spring
waters, under his directions, is now at hi
disposal. At the springs the Doctor haI
erected a magnificent and spacious building
divided into an ln6rmary and Hotel, sothst
visitors to ~Spinnyville can be either under
whole treatment, part treatment, or merely
visitors, enjoying themselves in the midst o.
the beautiful surrounding scenery and itl
collateral temptations to healthful pleasure
The house has its billiard tables aud other