3j\5 m'neven on the MINERAL water 



This seems to be one of those cases that proves the superior efficacy 

 of air and exercise, and moral treatment, in a chronic disease, to any 

 other remedy whatever. Even the salutary effects of that medicine 

 which proved most beneficial, must appear to have been derived, in a 

 very subordinate degree, from its purely medical qualities. I adminis- 

 tered carbonate of iron, combined with large dilution, to the patient, 

 during his sedentary period, without warding off, or apparently miti- 

 gating his complaint ; but, at this very interval, a visit to his father's 

 farm on Long Island, and leading there a farmer's life for some weeks, 

 was followed by a remission of his disorder. Nevertheless, to the iron 

 contained in the Schooley Mountain water, must be ascribed some 

 portion of the relief procured. When the chalybeate is drank for 

 some days after the worst attacks, it evidently effects a change in the 

 state of the kidneys, and in particular, appears to find there, and to 

 combine with, a portion of sulphur, with which it forms a sulphuret, 

 distinguishable by its black colour. This unusual quantity of sulphur 

 in the urine seems to be connected with the morbid condition of the 

 kidneys, for its evacuation is a sure precursor of amendment, and 

 during the further continuance of the water, the accumulation of 

 gravel and sulphur is, if not altogether, at least very much lessened. 



The calculous affection of this patient was constantly aggravated by 

 acescent food and acid drinks, and therefore appears to be owing to a 

 deposition of uric acid, which admits of being precipitated *vithin the 

 body by the superior affinity of a stronger acid for its base. One 

 cause, undoubtedly, of his being better of late, is the careful avoidance 

 of every acid drink. 



Another property of the Schooley Mountain water is, that the 

 varbonic acid it holds is. altogether in a state of combination, and this 

 accounts for its never occasioning flatulence, or spasm, in the weakest 

 stomach, at the same time that it gradually strengthens the digestive 



