Artificial Preparation of Medicinal Waters. 335 
water of the natural spring, that no difference could be observed be- 
tween them. 
This mode of making the artificial preparation which has never 
been adopted before, possesses the greatest advantage over every 
other by being kept in small bottles containing a sufficient quantity of 
the powder to make two dozen glasses of the artificial water; it thus 
becomes a cheap and portable article, capable of being taken to any 
distance without any inconvenience or injury, and without impairing any 
of its qualities. It is not my intention to enter further into the merits 
of this substitute for the water of the Congress mineral spring. Those 
of the Medical Faculty who have examined it, have expressed their 
unqualified approbation of this imitation of the natural water. To 
mention the names of those who have allowed me to doso, would be 
sufficient to stamp a value upon this preparation in this or any other 
country. 
The public have now an opportunity of judging for themselves; that 
the effort will encounter prejudice from those who are either inerest- 
ed or unacquainted with the nature of such a substitute must naturally 
be expected; many articles of the highest importance have encoun- 
tered at first the most decided opposition before they have made their 
way against ignorance and prejudice: to me whatever may be thought 
of it, it is of litthe consequence whether this artificial preparation is 
received in the favorable light I intended it should be, but before I 
conclude, I beg that it may be perfectly understood that in offering 
this substitute for the natural water, and in pointing out its advantages, 
I have not the smallest view of representing it as possessing the same 
medicinal qualities as may be derived from the natural water, when 
drunk at the spring. In fact there are so many advantages connected . 
with the use of it on the spot, where change of air, change of scenes, 
and agreeable society co-operate so much to the restoration of health, 
that few, who have it in their power, can hesitate in their choice. But 
on this subject I have expressed myself more fully in a separate trea- 
tise on the chemical analysis and medicinal qualities, of the Sarato- 
ga- and Ballston waters; in this work I have fully expressed my 
agreement, in opinion with the most experienced physicians, who 
uniformly state, that in order to obtain the full benefit of any: min- 
eral water, it should be taken at the fountain. 
