Madden, Thomas More.

The Spas and Their Use – Medical Hand-Book of the Principal Watering Places on the Continent – Belgium, Germany, Switzerland, France and Italy.

Third edition. London, T.C. Newby, 1874. 14.8 cm x 19.8 cm XI, 369 pages. Hardcover [publisher’s original green cloth] with gilt lettering and elaborate ornamentation to spine. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Firm binding with bookblock tight and square. With protective Mylar. Discreet bookseller’s label on lower front pastedown.

Includes, for example, the following: On the Nature and Uses of Mineral and Thermal Waters / Dyspepsia and the Spas / On Gout and Its Treatment by Mineral Waters / Life at the German Spas / The Art of Travel / Spa / Aix-La-Chapelle to Ems / Schwalbach and Schlangenbad / Carlsbabd / Baden-Baden / Aix-Les-Bains and Vichy / A Visit to the Spas of the Pyrennes / The Spas of Italy /

″It would be difficult to point out a class of remedies which have so wide a range of action on disease, and which are resorted to in so great a variety of cases, as that which forms the subject of the treatise. Diseases occasioned by the inactive life, and those resulting from long continued over exertion; maladies caused by plethora, and those induced by anaemia, the impoverished blood produced by imperfect digestive or assimilative powers and the vitiated blood laden with excess of nutriment; in a word, morbid conditions the most opposite, occurring in persons of different temperaments, of every age and of both sexes, are all under the curative influence of mineral waters. The list of ailments benefited by the Spas would be as long, and, in this place, as uninteresting as the catalogue of the ships in the Illiad.” (p.i-ii.)

Madden, Thomas (1838 – 14 April 1902) was an Irish physician and writer, son and biographer of Richard Robert Madden.
He was born at Havana, Cuba, where his father was an appointee of the British Government working on the abolition of the slave trade, according to the terms of the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
Madden began his medical studies in Dublin, but after qualification bad health forced him to recuperate abroad. He combined studies with stays in Montpellier and Málaga. He then travelled to Spain, North Africa and Australia. He returned to Dublin in 1868 to concentrate on midwifery and gynaecology. He became assistant Master to the Rotunda Hospital and afterwards took up the position of obstetrical physician at the Mater Hospital, Dublin.
In 1871 he organized an Irish ambulance service for the French side in the Franco-Prussian War.
He wrote a large number of books on medical topics, dealing principally with obstetrics.
(Wikipedia)

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• Language: English
• Inventory Number: 120348AB

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