Chapter 2

THE MEDICINAL WATERS AND THEIR ACTION. Physiological Functions in Healthy 22 Individuals--Performance of the Physiological Functions in Health and Disease--Action of Oxygen upon the Nitrogenous and Non-nitrogenous Compounds--Origin of Calculi, Nodosities, and Tophi--Action of the Thermal Water upon the Great Emunctories--Chalybeate Water when Used as a Douche, or Taken Internally--Analyses of the Waters--Selection of Buxton by the Romans--First Treatise upon the Buxton Spa, written by Dr. Jones in 1572--Source and Nature of the Waters