Account of Sutton Spa. 65 



The Sutton water has by many been compared with that 

 of Chehenham, and supposed to contain nearly the same 

 ingredients. It bears, however, a much closer resemblance 

 to sea water, as will be evident from the annexed table*. 



We have accordingly found it most beneficial in those 

 cases for which sea water is usually recommended. It 

 yields the same salutary stimulus to the stomach in chronic 

 weakness of that organ, and obviates, both mildly and ef- 

 fectually, the habitual costiveness of hypochondriac patients. 

 Diluted in a large portion of liquid, the saline ingredients 

 serve to wash out any acrid sordes collected in the lirst pas- 

 sages, which I believe to be one of the most important uses 

 of mineral waters. On no other principle can we explain 

 the uniform good effects produced on the digestive organs 

 by waters so various in the nature and proportion of their 

 contents, and in the degree of their impregnation. 



Conveyed by the lactcals into the mass of circulating 

 fluids, and thence tlirough the different secretory organs, 

 this water has ]iroved highly serviceable in a creat variety 

 of glandular affections : and, being disposed to pass off with 

 the finer parts of the blood, promotes the excretions of 

 urine or perspiration, according to the attendant circum- 

 stances of clf)thing, temperature of the air, &c. Absorbed 

 by the lymphatics, the acrid muriates stunulate the torpid 

 vessels, and wash out any acrimony accumulated in conse- 

 quence of that inirritability. We hence may readily explain 

 their efficacy in those disorders to which the poorer classes 



It must here be observed, that the sea, being more strongly impregnated 

 With salt m proportion to the warmth of the climate, contains on our coast* 

 not more than l-30th its weight, instead of l-'_'Sd of saline contents, 



• Vol. 22, No. 85. June 1805. E ar^ 



