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GLEANINGS — CHEMICAL  AND  PHARMACEUTICAL. 
Mayer,  late  assistant  to  Prof.  Henry,  of  the  Smithsonian  Insti- 
tution at  Washington.  He  found,  one  imperial  gallon  to  contain  : 
Graius,  Troy. 
?    \  46-05 
la,  / 
Bicarbonate  of  Soda, 
Lith 
"  Potash, 
"  Magnesia 
«  Iron, 
"  *Lime, 
Sulphate  of  Lime, 
Chlorides, 
Phosphates, 
Silica, 
Total, 
Variations  have  been  noticed 
pregnation  of  the  water  at  diffei 
trace. 
.  76-05 
trace. 
.  81-00 
.  53-20 
trace, 
trace. 
.  10-00 
.  266-30 
in  the  amount  of  mineral  im- 
ent  seasons.    The  proportion  of 
lithia  is  not  given,  and  we  are  left  to  conjecture  how  far  the 
presence  of  this  antipodagric  substance  goes  to  explain  the  re- 
moval, by  the  use  of  this  water,  of  lumps  or  nodosities,  improp- 
erly called  "chalk  stones,"  from  the  joints  of  persons  who  had 
previously  suffered  from  rheumatic  gout.  Cases  of  this  kind  are 
reported,  on  apparently  good  authority.  We  must  regard  as 
worthy  of  all  credence,  both  from  his  intelligence  and  high 
character,  the  statement  of  the  Rev.  Dr.  Moriarty's  case  of 
gouty  rhumatism,  written  by  himself  and  published  in  different 
journals.  He  had  been  a  sufferer  from  the  disease  for  sixteen 
years,  one  of  the  attacks  being  of  five  months  duration,  and 
accompanied  by  great  pain  and  inability  to  move.  He  was 
entirely  restored  to  the  free  use  of  his  limbs  by  a  persistent  use 
of  the  Gettysburg  waters  for  some  months,  at  his  own  home. 
He  took  altogether  ten  gallons  of  the  waters. 
Of  the  recent  cases  showing  the  curative  power  of  this  water 
in  rheumatism,  the  most  remarkable  is  the  one  of  a  young  lady 
from  Maryland,  who  visited  the  spring  last  summer,  as  described 
by  Dr.  Weaver.  Her  first  attack  of  rheumatism  came  on  five 
years  ago,  and  returned  a]t  intervals  more  or  less  severely  until 
she  was  reduced  to  an  apparently  hopeless  condition.  Her  joints, 
including  those  of  her  fingers  and  toes  were  enlarged  by  u  urate 
