GrASTRALGiA,  or  Nervoxis  Dyspepsia,  is  a  form  of  dis-
ease occasionally  met  with  at  our  watering  places,  and  is
an  affection  often  of  difficult  and  uncertain  management,
whatever  be  the  remedies  employed.  When  it  is  purely
functional  and  disconnected  with  organic  lesion,  the
White  sulphur,  administered  in  moderate  quantities,  and
in  its  least  stimulating  form,  is  a  safe,  and  sometimes  an
efficaciovis  remedy.     We  usually  prefer,  however,  to  con-


82  WHITE   SULPHUR    SPRINGS.
tinue  its  use,  at  first,  no  longer  tlian  may  be  necessary  to
bring  tbe  bowels  and  the  secretory  action  of  the  liver
under  its  influence,  and  then  give  the  patient  the  advan-
tage of  the  tonic  influence  of  the  waters  of  the  Sweet,
or  Ked  Chalybeate,  and  their  chamjiciig^ie  baths.  Ad-
vantage is  often  derived  by  alternating  during  the
season  between  the  latter  springs  and  the  White,  or
some  other  sulphur  water.
Pyrosis,  or  Water  Brash,  is  another  form  of  stomach
disease,  in  which  this  water  is  occasionally  used,  and
sometimes  with  very  good  efiects.  Indeed,  it  is  rarely
used  in  water  brash  without  benefit.  In  this  foi-m  of
disease,  the  water  should  never  be  taken  in  large  and
often  repeated  •  draughts  :  from  such  a  course  increased
debility  of  the  stomach,  with  other  deleterious  conse-
quences, would  rarely  fail  to  follow.
When  good  reasons  exist  for  supposing  the  stomach  to
be  scJurrous  or  cancerrms,  the  patient  should  carefully
abstain  from  the  use  of  this,  or  any  of  our  mineral
waters.  Two  cases  have  come  under  our  notice,  in  which
much  injury  was  received  from  their  use,  one  from  the
Alum  water,  the  other  from  this.
