28 D. Appleton & CoSs Medical Publications. 



WALTON. 

 The Mineral Springs of the United 



States and Canada, with Analyses and Notes on the 

 Prominent Spas of Europe, and a List of Sea-side 

 Resorts. 



By GEOEGE E. WALTON, M. D., 



Lecturer on Materia Medica in the Miami Medical College, Cincinnati. 

 1 vol., 12mo, 390 pages, with Maps. Price, $2.00. 



The author has given the analyses of all the springs in this country and 

 those of the principal European spas, reduced to a uniform standard of 

 one wine-pint, so that they may readily he compared. He has arranged 

 the springs of America and Europe in seven distinct classes, and de- 

 scribed the diseases to which mineral waters are adapted, with refer- 

 ences to the class of waters applicable to the treatment, and the pecul- 

 iar characteristics of each spring as near as known are given also, the 

 location, mode of access, and post-office address of every spring are men- 

 tioned, In addition, he has described the various kinds of baths and 

 the appropriate use of them in the treatment of disease. 



" In this volume the author has endeavored to arrange all the known facts 

 concerning mineral waters, in such a manner that they shall be readily acces- 

 sible. For this purpose he has consulted the best European authors, their con- 

 clusions being drawn from hundreds of years of laborious investigation of the 

 spas of Germany, France, Switzerland, and Italy. It has been interesting, in 

 the course of this study, to note how closely the conclusions' drawn by them 

 concerning the action of different classes of waters agree with the observations 

 made at springs in this country, independent of any knowledge of foreign re- 

 search. The portion relating to the springs of the United States is the result 

 of a selection of credible evidence regarding them, gained by correspondence 

 and personal observation." Extract from Preface. 



UNIVEESITY OF VIBGINIA, June 9, 1873. 



GENTLEMEN : I have received by mail a copy of Dr. Walton's work on the 

 Mineral Springs of the United States and Canada. Be pleased to accept my 

 thanks for a work which I have been eagerly looking for ever since I had the 

 pleasure of meeting the author in the summer of 1871. He satisfied me that 

 he was well qualified to write a reliable work on this subject, and I doubt not 

 he has met my expectations. Such a work was greatly needed, and, if offered 

 for sale at the principal mineral springs of the country, will, I believe, com- 

 mand a ready sale. Very respectfully yours, 



J. L. CABELL, M. D. 



