The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1875-04-10
SULPHATE OF LIME.

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Within the past few years several springs
have been discovered in Wisconsin contain.
ing in their waters a little salt and magnesla,
with few other healthful ingIedients-but
amount to what homGopathists would call
about the 18th attenuation. While a vigor-
Gus effort however, was being made by the
owners of these springs to get up large sale
of their waters on account OF their medical
properties, another mineral spring was dis.
covered at Ottawa which, if the waters of the
above springs were held to be healing, must
prove six or eight times more So because the
Ottawa waters were proved by scientific an
alysis to contain all the healing properties of
the Wisconsin springs and in six or eight
times greater proportion. The advent in the
market of this rival has caused an immense
futter among the Wisconsin spring owners.
Ii the Ottawa waters are what they claim to
be, manifesttly there will be little occasion
for invalds longer fooling with the minutes
simally attenuated waters of Wisconsin. 10
save themselves, however, from being a; once
driven out Of the market, the Wisconsin men
seize upon the fact that the Ottawa waters
that is not contained in their waters, and on
this they raise furious how about the de.
leterloness Of that salt. Unhappily, however,
the highest medical authorities do not agree
-, a. cnooplatnro tc ha
properties of that salt, on the contrary, they
regard it as one of the most valuable of all the
ingredients of the Ottawa waters. For in
stance here is what EDMUND p. TRAvERs,
NJ d., a very able physician of Amboy, Lee
Co, ILL.,, has to say as to the therapeutical
value of the sulphate of lime as contained in
the Ottawa waters;
Lime is recognized by the medical profess
sion, the world over, as one of the most i'm
portant pharmaceutical agents in the materia
medca. 1t is never found pure, but nearly
always combined with acids, and is fonnd in
combination with sulphuric acid in the var
ious kinds OF gypsum, mineral consisting
of sulphate of lime and 81 per cent. of water,
ia which condition it holds place in the Of
tawa Mineral Spring water. Its chemical
composition is expressed by formula Ca s o
4, II o. 1t is a hydrated sulphate of lime.
Gypsum is produced by the action of sulphur
ic acid contained in the water of acid springs
acting upon strata of limestone. 1t is solu-
BILE in fresh water in the proportion Of one
part to four or five hundred of water. 1t is
usually associated with the salts which are
found IN sea-water, such as the chlorides of
sodium, calcium, magnesium, &c, &c, and
Is also found precipitated by itself for miles
in large quantities, on account OF 1t being the
least soluble of all the solid matter contained
in the water.
The therapeutical value OF sulphate of lime
in combination with other integral parts of
the water is the change that necessarily takes
place in the whole of its ingredients when
taken into the stomach. The acid secretons
of the stomach combine with the lime and
sets sulphurous acid free, which is one of the
best parasiticides known in the whole range
of medicines, and, in the presence of low or
gansms in the stomach fluids, has been sue
cessfully used and recommended by the high
est authorities in the medical profession.
Sulphurous acid is also powerful febrifuge,
beng also large absorbent of radient heat
In septlcalmIc poisoning the preparations
of the sulphates have always proved success
full TO allay the symptoms in this fearful dis
ease, thus arresting the Preventative process.
SEES IN the blood
The sulphatGs also act as powerful verm.
cides in the different forms of intestinal
worms, as the sulphurous acid is set free by
the acid secrctons of the stomach, thus pro.
ducing gaseous anthelmintIc.
If we now examine this lime after the acid
is set free, we find 1t combining with the Sc
crelions OF the stomach, and forming com
pounds, the most valuable in the Ma,eria
Medlca, for the building up of the waste It's
sues fthe human frame. The Tactic ana
phosphoric acids are already a watins,ts adj.
vent into the stomach to Immediately com.
bine with it, and form salts of the most nour-
ishing nature, thus relieving many poor ill.,
valid who probably had already tried every.
thing else in vain.
While combination of circumstan ces has
in ordinary practice led to the use of partic-
ular remedies and modes of treatment being
at one time very prevalent and during an.
other almost abandoned, mineral waters have
enjoyed steady popularity, as the wells of
centuries ago are the today places of popu-
lar resort.
The most remarkable salt well ia England
is that of RGiruth in Cornwall and according
to Prot. W. A. Miller's Analysis, contains IN
the gallon:
Grains
Chloride OF POTASH $500. ,......... IL 81