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The spas and mineral waters of Europe, with notes on balneo-therapeutic management in various diseases and morbid conditions, by Hermann Weber and F. Parkes Weber.
LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia 1896 Weber
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weber, Hermann, 1823-1918.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health resorts.
- Hydrotherapy.
- Mineral waters.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 380 p. 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Smith, Elder, & co., 1896.
- Contents:
- Hydro-therapeutics, or the therapeutic use of plain water
- Constitutents and classification of mineral waters
- Action of mineral waters on the body in their external and their internal employment
- The influence of change in air, diet, and habits in their connection with spa treatment; ordinary medical and surgical treatment at spas; muscular exercises and massage in connection with spa treatment
- Daily life at spas; duration of the cure; necessity for medical supervision; seasons for the cure; importance of an 'aftercure'
- Simple or indifferent thermal waters
- common salt or muriated waters
- Simple alkaline waters
- Muriated alkaline waters
- Sulphated alkaline waters
- Sulphated and muriated-sulphated waters
- Iron or chalybeate waters
- Arsenical waters
- Sulphur waters
- Earthy or calcareous waters
- Table waters and other weakly mineralised cold waters
- Marine spas
- Balneo-therapeutic management in different diseases and morbid conditions
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Bibliography: p. 351-357.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Maroon cloth binding with gold writing on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Livezey Fund bookplate.
- OCLC:
- 3897306
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