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Excerpt from The Mineral Waters of Vittel: Grande Source and Source Salee, Their Nature and Uses The application of natural mineral waters to the cure or relief of disease involves much more complicated considerations than is sometimes supposed. Mineral waters are a two-edged weapon demanding the most skilled handling. Hence medical men who send patients to mineral-water health resorts should be well acquainted both with the property of the water at the resort selected and with the ways in which it is likely to be used by the colleague thereat to whom they entrust their patients. During the past few years the details of hydrotherapy have been considerably modified under the influence of various authorities, including physicists and scientific chemists, as well as medical men. The treatment provided now is not merely curative, but also prophylactic, and may be applied with advantage to children as well as adults. In this connection a statement of Professor Landouzy may suitably be quoted: "What is necessary is that the medical profession should learn to take advantage of natural mineral waters and the resources of physio-therapy. If the visitors to mineral-water health resorts included a larger proportion of children, the number of adult visitors would in a few decades correspondingly decrease. Those who otherwise might have been visitors would, having been cured in childhood of their original weaknesses, be less prone to disorders of the throat, bronchi, skin, kidneys, liver, and stomach - less affected by those disease-originating diatheses which children inherit from parents, and at present transmit in their turn to their own offspring, because not submitted to the redeeming qualities of natural mineral waters, and thereby enabled to rid themselves of their ancestral defects." It rests, therefore, with practitioners anxious for the well-being of the race to transform mineral-water health resorts into true schools of hygiene, moral, physical, and dietetic - into schools of health capable of correcting both original and acquired defects. 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."