Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1886-06-18
HISTORY OF THE VALLEY.
APPENDIX V.
ACCOUNT OF THE MEDICAL PROP
ERTIEs OF THE GREY SUI.
pUTR SPRINGS.

of late years acquired, causes tnem
to be resorted to, in great numbers,
not only by invalids from every
section of the United States and
foreign parts, but also by lndividu-
ais of leisure and fashion, whose
principal object is, to pass the sum-
mer in an agreeable manner. The
properties of the warm, hot, sweet,
white sulphur, salt sulphur, and
red sulphur springs, are generally
known. Those of the Grey Sui
phur having been asceItained only
within the two last years, have yet
TO be made public, and in order to
do 80, we are induced to give, in
this form, an account Of the situa-
ton and medical properties, to-
gether with a statement of some of
the cases benefited by the use of
the waters.
The Grey Sulphur Springs are
situated near the line, dividing the
counties of Giles end Monroe, Va,
on the main road leading from the
court House of the one to that of
the other. They are three-quarters
of a mile from Peterstown, nine
miles from the Red Sulphur, and
by the county road, twenty and a
quarter miles from the Salt Sulphur
Spring. In travelling on the Vir-
ginia Springs, by either the main
Tennessee or GOOdspur Gap road,
and crossing the country from New
bern, by the stage road to the Sui
phur Springs, the Grey Sulphur
are the first arrived at. They are
thirty miles distant from Newbern.
The location is such as to admit of
many and varied improvements,
which when completed, will render
this spot an elegant and desirable
resort during the summer months,
independent of the high medicinal
properties of the mineral waters.
The present improvements con-
sist of a brick hotel ninety feet long
and thirty-two wide; two ranges
of cabins one hundred and sixty
two feet long each, which, with
other buildings In connection, af-
ford accommodation for from nine
ty to one hundred visitors.
There are two springs at this es-
tablishment, situated within five
feet of each other and inclOsed in
one building. Although rising so
near to each other, yet they differ
most materially in their action on
the system. Both appear to be
peculiarly seryiceable in dyspeptic
cases, and in such as originate in a
disOrdered state of the stomach
the one in those, in which milan.
nation exists, the other in such as
proceed from torpidity. They have
hitherto been known as Large and
Small Springs; but having succeed
ed towards the close of the last
season in procuring much larger
supply of water at the Small Spring,
than is afforded by the Large, a
change OF names became necessary.
The large will hereafter be known
as the Anti.Dyspeptic, and the
small as the Aperient, which names
will serve to point out their peculiar
characteristics.
r These springs have been classed
by Professor Shepard, as "AlkGliaO
SulphurOuS," a variety so rarely
met with, that another is not known
in the United States. The waters
) are beautifully clear, and highly
charged with gas, which render
them light and extremely pleasant
especially that of the Anti-Dyspep
TIC Spring, which produces none o.
those unpleasant sensations so fire
; quently felt on the first drinking O
mineral waters.
When first purchased some o
the water was submitted to a chem
ist for analysis; the quantity, how
ever, was too small for him to as
certain all its ingredients. A more
recent examination has been made
by Professor G. U. Shepard, WHIT
r. has furnished us with the follow
ing abstract of an article which ap
pears in the April Number (lS36
of Professor Silliman's Journal o.
Science and Arts.
"The following is the most salts
factory view which my experiment.
enable me to present of the condi
ton of these waters.
Specific gravity, 1903.
SOLUBLE INGREDIENTS.
Nitrogen,
,, Hydro-Sulphuric acid,
Bi.CarbOnate Of Soda, (a)
A Super Carbonate Of Lime,
Chloride Of Calcium,
Chloride Of Sodium,
Sulphate Of Soda,
An Alkaline ofearthy Crenste, or both
SIlcic acid.
INsOLUBLE INGREDIENTS.
Sulphuret of Iron,
Crenate Of Per Oxide Of Iron,
Silicic acid,
Alumina,
Silicate of Iron.
My experiments do not permit
me to point out the differences be
! tween two springs with precision
!. The new spring appears to give
= rise to a greater amount of hydro
' sulphuric acid, as well as OF iror
/ and silicic acid. Probably it may
a d;Aar. In sfiIl othar reanacta bav.