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accumulations from the kidneys, skin and bowels.
Dr. Draper, an eminent physician, in speaking of the springs, says:
"They restore suppressed, and correct vitiated secretions, and so
renovate health, and are also the means of introducing many medicines
into the system in a state of minute subdivision, in which they exert a
powerful alterative and curative action."
The value of mineral water has been shown in the treatment of obscure
and chronic diseases. In many instances persons have been restored to
health, or greatly relieved, by the use of mineral waters when all other

remedies had proved of no avail.
The best known waters are now prescribed by the faculty in certain
diseases with as much confidence as any preparation known to the
apothecary. Indeed, no prescription is known equally beneficial to such
differently made patients.
A large majority of those who resort to the springs for their health have
tried other means of cure without relief.
It may also be considered a marked compliment to the medicinal
properties of the waters, that the thousands who come here for pleasure
merely, living fast and indulging in dissipation while here, return to
their homes in better health--as they almost always do--than when they
came.
Unlike certain other springs, whose wonderful properties and vaunted
cures are found in pompous advertisements, the Saratoga waters have
not made their celebrity by printer's ink. Their reputation has depended
upon their own intrinsic merits, and steadily and surely has their
renown advanced.
To repeat all the disorders which they have been known to benefit,
would be very nearly to copy the sad list of ailments to which our
creaky frames are subject.
In short, spring water is good for the stomach, good for the skin, good
for ladies of all possible ages, and for all sorts and conditions of men.

Individual Characteristics.
In stating the special properties of the individual springs, we have
conscientiously endeavored to make this work as reliable and accurate
as possible. Those who are familiar with the reputation and claims of
some of the several springs in past years will notice many changes, but
it is believed that the information herein given is on the best authority,
and brought down to the latest date.

_The Analyses of the Saratoga Waters, by C.F. Chandler, Ph.D., of the
Columbia School of Mines._
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Compounds as they exist | Star | High | Seltzer | Pavilion| United in
Solution in the Waters. | Spring. | Rock | Spring. | Spring.| States | |
Spring. | | | Spring.
---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------
Chloride of sodium | 398.361 | 390.127 | 134.291 | 459.903 | 141.872
Chloride of potassium | 9.695 | 8.974 | 1.335 | 7.660 | 8.624 Bromide of
sodium | 0.571 | 0.731 | 0.630 | 0.987 | 0.844 Iodide of sodium | 0.126 |
0.086 | 0.031 | 0.071 | 0.047 Fluoride of calcium | Trace. | Trace. | Trace.
| Trace. | Trace. Bicarbonate of lithia | 1.586 | 1.967 | 0.899 | 9.486 |
4.847 Bicarbonate of soda | 12.662 | 34.888 | 29.428 | 3.764 | 4.666
Bicarbonate of magnesia | 61.912 | 54.924 | 40.339 | 76.267 | 72.883
Bicarbonate of lime | 124.459 | 131.739 | 89.869 | 120.169 | 93.119
Bicarbonate of strontia | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | 0.018
Bicarbonate of baryta | 0.096 | 0.494 | Trace. | 0.875 | 0.909 Bicarbonate
of iron | 1.213 | 1.478 | 1.703 | 2.570 | 0.714 Sulphate of potassa | 5.400
| 1.608 | 0.557 | 2.032 | Trace. Phosphate of soda | Trace. | Trace. | Trace.
| 0.007 | 0.016 Biborate of soda | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace.
Alumina | Trace. | 1.223 | 0.374 | 0.329 | 0.094 Silica | 1.283 | 2.260 |
2.561 | 3.155 | 3.184 Organic Matter | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. Trace. |
Trace.
---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+---------+--------
Total per | | | | | U.S. gallon, 231 cu. in.| 617.367 | 630.500 | 302.017 |
687.275 | 331.837
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Carbonate acid gas | 407.650 | 409.458 | 324.080 | 332.458 | 245.734
Density | 1.0091 | 1.0092 | 1.0034 | 1.0095 | 1.0035 Temperature | 52°F.
| 52°F. | 50°F. | ... | ...
---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Compounds
as they exist | Hathorn | Crystal |Congress | Geyser in Solution in the
Waters. | Spring. | Spring. | Spring. |spouting (Continued) | | | | well.
---------------------------+---------+---------+---------+-------- Chloride of

sodium | 509.968 | 328.468 | 400.444 | 562.080 Chloride of potassium |
9.597 | 8.327 | 8.049 | 42.634 Bromide of sodium | 1.534 | 0.414 | 8.559
| 2.212 Iodide of sodium | 0.198 | 0.066 | 0.138 | 0.248 Fluoride of
calcium | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. | Trace. Bicarbonate of lithia | 11.447