The Practitioner . BRITISH HEALTH RESORTS. 849 gastro-intestinal digestion, the benefit of such a course oftreatment is obvious, and particularly is this so, when it iscombined with the administration of a course of one or otherof the magnesia waters (which are diuretic in action), andsome form of bath treatment, the latter promoting and stimu-lating the excretory and secretory action of the skin. A reference to the analyses alread) given will show thatthe Kissingen, to take this as an example of the chalybeategroup, contains carbonate of iron, and a large proportion ofsaline ingredients. This
The Practitioner . BRITISH HEALTH RESORTS. 849 gastro-intestinal digestion, the benefit of such a course oftreatment is obvious, and particularly is this so, when it iscombined with the administration of a course of one or otherof the magnesia waters (which are diuretic in action), andsome form of bath treatment, the latter promoting and stimu-lating the excretory and secretory action of the skin. A reference to the analyses alread) given will show thatthe Kissingen, to take this as an example of the chalybeategroup, contains carbonate of iron, and a large proportion ofsaline ingredients. This combination is specially useful in thatthe iron is present in an easily assimilable form, the salinescorrecting any tendency to constipation, which is so frequentlymet with in conditions which call for its administration. The chief conditions which derive benefit from Harrogatetreatment, as may be in part inferred from what has been said,are the following :— Convalescence from Acute Illness.—In these cases, th
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