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Excerpt from Medical Guide to the Mineral Waters of France and Its Wintering Stations In offering to the Medical Profession - and through them to the Public - this book on the Mineral Waters of France, I have endeavoured to be as concise as possible in order to furnish the busy practitioner with the means of ascertaining at a glance the chemical composition, the therapeutical value, and the geographical situation of the most important French Thermal Stations. I have availed myself of the latest monographs and other writings on the subject in order to bring the information up to date; and if I am unable to name all my French confreres to whom I am under an obligation, it is partly because they are too numerous, and also because I could not have named them alone without doing some injustice to the hardworking men of the past generation, who did so much to increase the reputation of our mineral springs. But there is one name which I could not omit to mention - it is that of Dr Durand-Fardel, who has perhaps done more than all others to elevate hydro-therapeutics to the position of a special science. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.