New Britain herald., 1915-03-17
Some of Our Health Resorts.
New York Sum-

Recent investigation by Professor
John G. Hemmetcr and Professor
Ernest Zueblin of Baltimore, for
which we are indebted to the
"Archives Of Internal Medicine" Feb
ruary, 1916, establishes the su-
periority of some of the American
springs over those of Europe, and
likewise the equality of the Euro
pean springs in the matter of radio
activity. This radioactivity is now
accepted as the chief reason for the
difference in curative value between
waters used at the source and those
applied at home.
The highest radioactive springs in
the world are those of Joachimsthal
and Lacco Ameno, the Hot Springs
of Arkansas and the Virginia Hot
Springs The first three of these lose
much of their original radioactlvlty
before reaching the bathtub because
their temperature must be reduced to
a beara bic degree while the Virginia
Hot Springs may be used Just as they
flow, a short distance from their
sources. Wiesbaden. the most re-
nowned and frequented resort in Eu-
rope furnishes mineral and radio
active water at 149 Fahrenheit and
must, like the hot springs of Ar
kansas. be reduced about fifty degrees
before reaching the bather. The hot
springs Of Virginia and Arkansas may
be reached by passing through a COW
cred corridor, while the government
bath institutions of Wiesbaden are
distant from the hotels.
According to Professor Zueblin's
report the waters of Virginia Hot
Springs exceed in radioactivity those
at Carlsbad, Marienbad Nauheim,
Gastein and others less renowned.
When it is considered that $4,000
persons visited Wiesbaden in 1911
the opportunity of the Arkansas and
Virginia Hot Springs and others less
known in this country is exceedingly
promising.
The Sun has adverted to the need
of more scientific knowledge of our
waters and of the instruction of ply
sicians in their curative uses, hitherto
prescribed in so haphazard a manner
that patients have become sceptical
as to their real value.
A writer on the subject has we'll
said that sit is more important to
the doctor who sends his patients to a
mineral spring to know the mental
composition of the doctor to whom
the patient goes than the chemical
composition OF the waters he pre-
scribes.' SO long as this important
branch of therapeutics Is not taught
in the medical colleges so long will
the prescription of our mineral and
thermal springs anguish.
Commemorate activity is now i'll evil
dence at many resorts. Where ply
sicians have. long resided and applied
their respective waters, such as Vir-
ginia Hot Springs, Arkansas Hot
Springs. White Sulphur and Saratoga
Springs there. is the prospect of "a
large influx of health seekers who
formerly visited Europe. These may
discover that, taking our best OK
amples, there are no cold springs in
Europe possessing more yaua BILE
curative properties than those of
been in the habit OF spending the
summer at kissingen, Vichy HON.
burg, Marienbad or Nauhein NAV
find the carbonfc acid waters of these
resorts, which aggregated 10000 pa
tients in 1911. Nor is there any re-
sort in Europe in which those who
make annual pilgrimage to Aix-lcs-
and other warm springs, in which
they may not find. for reasons given
above, equal advantages in Arkansas
and California, and even superior ad-
yantages at the Hot Springs of Vir-
ginia