Carbon dioxide6·9
Nitrogen11·6

It had become somewhat aerated on drawing, but allowance has been made for that.

Milligrams
per million
litres.
Radium in the water of the King’s Well0·1387
Niton (radium emanation) in the water of King’s Well1·73
” ” ” ” of Cross Bath1·19
” ” ” ” of Hetling Bath1·70
” ” ” in the gas from King’s Well33·65

[65] Bickel in a series of experiments in which the acid contents as well as the total amount of gastric juice were considered obtained the following results: simple gaseous waters (Apollinaris, Giesshübl), muriated waters (Rakoczy spring of Kissingen, Wiesbaden, Kochbrunnen), and muriated alkaline waters (Ems, Selters), all of them, as compared to distilled water and ordinary tap water, rather increased than decreased the specific secretory activity of the gastric mucous membrane, whereas simple alkaline waters (Vichy) and sulphated alkaline waters (Karlsbad) had a slight tendency to diminish, and the sulphated “bitter” waters (Hunyadi Janos water) decidedly diminished, the gastric secretory activity, although “bitter” waters sometimes induced a watery flow from the gastric mucosa, which increased the fluid contents of the stomach.

[66] Bain, of Harrogate, from his observations on a man with permanent cutaneous biliary fistula, found that the old sulphur spring of Harrogate increased both the quantity of bile and the bile solids. This, he thinks, may “fairly be taken as an index of the degree to which it stimulates the liver, and is, in fact, the most reliable indication of the value of a cholagogue.”

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