parts of the digested aliment into the circulating mass of the blood.

They are liable to diseases, both of deficient and excessive action. In the former case they do not perform their office of absorption, and the nourishment of the body does not keep pace with the digestion of the food. In these cases the saline water is highly beneficial in acting as a stimulant upon their orifices, and exciting them to their natural and proper action. In this way it is often useful in scirrhous affections of the different glands, swelled legs and arms, scrofulous and rickety affections.

Obstructions sometimes takes place in many of the abdominal organs, such as the liver, spleen, &c., and in these cases the saline waters are recommended with advantage.

Acidity of the stomach is often both a consequence and a cause of incomplete and inefficient digestion. It is, as before noticed, the result of indigestion; because food, whether animal or vegetable, exposed to the heat and moisture of the stomach, uncorrected by its peculiar solvent powers, runs of itself into a state of fermentation and sourness: it is a cause of indigestion because its presence acts injuriously on the coats

of the stomach and still further weakens that organ. Flatulence and heartburn, and a sour state of the mouth indicate the presence of this affection, which is relieved by this water, owing to the large proportion of carbonate of soda which it contains in combination with its other salts.

It acts also upon the kidneys, increasing their secretions, and promoting their office of carrying off the impurities of the body. I believe it to act more directly upon these organs than any other of the waters of Harrogate. It is very useful in gravelly cases, when the urine deposits a red and sandy sediment; or when it is deficient in quantity and voided with heat and difficulty. In many such cases as these, a course of this water may be had recourse to, and its efficacy would be increased, in some instances, by mixing with it an additional portion of the carbonate of soda.

In diseases of the urinary passages generally, benefit will be derived from drinking this water; in such of them chiefly as are dependent upon increased action, rather than simple debility. And in those cases of gout which are complicated with this kind of annoyance, the saline water will be found eminently serviceable.

In what is termed Renal Dropsy, caused as this is by disorder of the kidneys, and characterized by pain in the region of those organs, tenderness, and weight; and in other species of dropsy, attended with langour and debility, this water will be a useful auxiliary to other treatment.

There are many other complaints in which this water is beneficial; such as affections of the stomach, bowels, and liver, caused by local determinations of blood, or slight inflammatory action in these organs. Some of the more irritable diseases of the skin, and scrofulous cases, attended with chronic fever, and shooting pains in the neck and limbs, and several uterine affections, in which there exists irritation and a deficiency of secretion from this cause, may be enumerated. In these the water should be taken freely, so as to produce its full evacuant effect, and in doses of a pint at least, in separate draughts twice a day.

One great recommendation of this saline water is, that in cases where such a course may be advisable, it can be usefully taken with any other of the waters, whether the sulphurous or chalybeate; or it may be alternated with these, without producing chemical decomposition or any other unpleasant effect.

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Those who have drunk a particular water daily for some time, will readily understand the comfort and relief they experience from a change to another, when the complaint does not forbid it; and I have often seen this substituted for a short time both for the sulphurous and the chalybeate with great advantage; and the return to the originally prescribed water has seemed to be, in many instances, attended with increased effect.

SUPPEMENTARY REMARKS ON DIET AND

EXERCISE.

The subject of Diet and Exercise is by no means the least important which should engage the attention of the visitor to Harrogate-for it is quite possible either greatly to assist or utterly to counteract the good effects of the waters by the course he pursues in reference to it.

It is the general opinion that, "sanis omnia sana"-that persons in good health need pay no attention to the quality of their food, or take any precaution as to its quantity, beyond the guidance of their own appetite, and the avoidance of gross

excess.

But this is true only to a certain extent; for we are compelled to admit, that a very large portion of the diseases with which we have to contend, are occasioned by habitual error in this respect.

Reasoning from this fact, many writers on this subject have mistaken "reverse of wrong for