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assailed by chronic and other similar diseases, have found 

 relief, and sometimes a complete cure, from these waters. 



They possess also the virtue of counteracting costiveness, 

 and dispersing the phlegm accumulating in the stomach; 

 their operation is not mechanical, but extends to the very 

 source and principle of disease : by means of their relaxing 

 quality, in a slight degree, they stimulate inertness and 

 weakness, restore to the organs their former activity, and 

 prevent the return of the disease. They are particularly 

 useful in cases of worms and hypochondria. 



In those chronical diseases of the breast, and in declines, 

 which, althoufh they do not proceed from ulceration of the 

 lungs, are no less afflicting and fatal, these waters, especially 

 when they are accompanied with proper nourishing and 

 strengthening remedies, often give relief, and sometimes 

 effect a complete cure. 



This salutary effect of Lipetzk waters, situated in the very 

 heart of the populous part of Russia, must considerably in- 

 crease their value; more so, as the government has taken 

 upon itself to provide every thing that can make the abode 

 of invalids at Lipetzk agreeable and convenient. 



Industry, attracted there by its own interest, facilitates 

 the views of the government ; and Lipetzk, famed for its 

 waters, in no distant time will be known all over Europe. 



XXII. On the Caucasian Mineral IFaters*. 



JVIr. Skatelowitch, inspector of a medical institution 

 ill Astracan, reported to the faculty, in 1797, some ex- 

 traordinary effects of the cold spring of water discovered in 

 some of the Caucasian mountains, 35 versts f from the for- 

 tress of Constantinohor, towards the north-west. The spring 

 is situated in a kind of pit, between two rivers of fresh water, 

 issuing from several crevices in the rocks : it foams, throws 

 wp its sprays in various directions, and then, by a hollow 



* From the Journal of St. PettrshuTg for the year 1804. 

 -f Avcrtt ii about tlirce quartvrt of an English mile. 



channel. 



