The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1882-08-24
SPURIOUS MINERAL WATERS.

The st. Louis Post Dispatch reporter has
been going through that city and ascertain
ing how vast an amount of spurious drinks
are sold by the saloonists each day. He re-
ports the bulk of the mineral springs"
water to be only counterieits of the orlgi-
nails they are proclaimed to be, and these
limitations are manufactured at the most
trifling of expense. Even the Appollinaris
water, thought to be the purest OF those
LIQUIDS sold, is often counterfeited
But the Settler, Vichy and Kissingen were
nearly always but limitations Of the genu-
inc article. Our own saloons as well as
drug stores always keep goodly supply Of
these waters on hand, and il is are o.
nearly all the varieties that they are more
easy of imitation in the matter OF taste
than in that of their medicinal properties
But people go on drinking them day by
day, before meals and after meals and
paying as regularly for them all the
same. II time or circumstance or
imagination does good work the
credit goes to the particular kind of water
named as having been used lion the 9TH
er hand, benefits are not had, then SO much
the worse for Vichy, Kissipgen, Congress or
whatever else it was believed was being
tested, thus damaging the reputation Of the
original. The greater the competition in
these mineral waters the greater the
temptation 10 fraud and decep-
ton thorough base adulterations'
That these spring or well mineral
waters are as rule most efficient servants
in duly regulating the stomach and liver ir-
Irregularities, it is not to be .gainsaid, the
evidences are too numerous and distinct to
hermit an argument on the negative side.
But how far the imitation, or rather the
artificial water, is operative for those Ell
fects is another question. The originals
have been most accurately analysed, guam
titatiyely and qualitatively, and it would
seem that the same ingredients taken rom
the drug store and compounded under
strict chemical integrity would result In
the same admirture and be productive Of
the same effects as those which came from
the spripg or well. The manufacturing
chemists say yes to this problem, but the
m .dical fraternity are not so well agreed
a "a as 10 the therapeutic action and this Is
true alike they say whether We have regard
70 Alkaline waters, the Chalybeates, the
sulrhurous, the hot or the cold. The CUES
ton il one Of some importance TO many Of
ms. for while the artificial waters can be
procured by the poor man in bis homestead,
because Of the l0vness Of the price, he, with
hisfamily OF even without them Is not ablei 10
snare the time and spend the money atawh-
tering place required 10 produce the desired
influence. Time is money with him, board
IA hieh at these resorts, fare 10 and fro may
Be- expensive. That many and seemingly
cures are obtained By these wa
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