s been customary for some medical men to prescribe
the two waters mixed together. My own experience leads me to think that
such a mode of using them (in a great measure) destroys the efficacy of
the thermal by reducing its temperature, and driving off one of its most
active and essential constituents, viz., the nitrogen gas.

The water can be drunk with safety in most cases, but there are some in
which it is as inadmissible as the use of the baths.

In acute cystitis, advanced stage of Bright's disease, certain forms of
dyspepsia, irritation in the urinary passages, either in the male or
female, drinking the thermal water should not be resorted to. The mucous
membrane under its influence becomes more irritable, and where the
urinary passages are specially involved, the impulsive efforts to void
urine are extremely painful and distressing, the urine being reduced to
mere driblets, and sometimes even to complete retention. Constant
sickness, either arising from mucous inflammation or ulcer of the
stomach, contra--indicate the use of the thermal water.

CHAPTER IV.
DISEASES IN WHICH THE WATERS ARE USEFUL.

Acute Gout and Rheumatism--Chronic Gout and Rheumatism--Chorea--Paralysis
Agitans--Many Forms of Paralysis--Muscular Atrophy consequent upon the
Gouty Diathesis--Loco Motor Ataxia--Syphilis--Local
Injuries--Neuralgia--Sciatica, Lumbago, &c.--Number of Baths Constituting
a Course--Length of Residence Required--Action of Water upon Acute and
Chronic Disease--Extract from Devonshire Hospital Report--Inference.

The following are amongst the principal diseases for the relief of which
the Buxton medicinal thermal water is deservedly celebrated: Acute gout
and rheumatism (in neither of which can the baths be taken with advantage
until the acute or inflammatory stage has subsided), the water may be
used locally, either by sponging or wearing a compress over the affected
parts, and also internally, two or even three quarts, being drunk in the
twenty-four hours.

In the acute stage of gout or rheumatic fever, when the water is drunk in
large quantity daily, profuse perspiration of a critical nature takes
place about the sixth day, and is usually succeeded in twenty-four hours
by a measly eruption over the whole surface of the body and extremities,
quickly followed by a total subsidence of all the acute symptoms, leaving
the patient free from pain and on the high road to convalescence. Under
its influence the uri