Analysis of the Rockbridge Alum springs, in Virginia : with some account of their history, and the properties of the water, in letters of eminent physicians and other gentlemen; to which are added a few certificates, out of many in the various forms of disease which have been cured by these waters

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frazier & Randolph

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mineral waters--Virginia--Rockbridge Alum Springs--Therapeutic use.

Mineral waters.

Springs--Virginia--Rockbridge Alum Springs--Therapeutic use.

Springs.

Health resorts--Virginia--Rockbridge Alum Springs.

Health resorts.

Diseases.

Alum.

Advertising--Medicine--Virginia--Rockbridge Alum Springs.

Advertising.

Rockbridge Alum Springs (Va.).

Genre:

Advertisements -- New York (N.Y.) -- 19th century.

Advertisements -- Virginia -- Rockbridge Alum Springs -- 19th century.

Letters -- Virginia -- Rockbridge Alum Springs -- 19th century.

Physical Description:

36 p. ; 20 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Rockbridge Alum Springs?] : Frazier & Randolph, 1858 (Richmond, Va. : C. H. Wynne)

Notes:

"To make their healing virtues more widely and more accurately known to the whole public, is the object of this pamphlet"--P. 4.

Issued in beige printed wrappers with t.p. form machined on front wrapper within an ornamental border.

Includes information on the routes to the springs, the medical properties of the water as described in letters, extracts, certificates, and new testimonials, and an analysis of the waters, as well as, a caution by the proprietors.

"The Alum mass and alum pills"--P. 35-36.

Advertising for the Springs on p. [2] of wrappers, with a price list, signed "Wm. Frazier", with testimonials on p. [3] of wrappers.

Advertising for chemists and druggists in New York, Hegeman & Co., where the water is available on p. [4] of cover and tipped in on top of printed matter on p. [3] of cover.

Cited in:

Cf. Sabin 72376