Books and territory / Water and silk

Analyse des eaux minerales de Saint – Vincent dans le Duche d’Aoste

Author:

Vittorio Amedeo Gioanetti

Publication date:

1828

The author of this book is the vice-prior of the Faculty of Medicine in Turin: being a scientist, he analyzes Saint-Vincent mineral waters to try to discover their healing properties. He therefore analyzes their degree of acidity, temperature, and he tells anecdotes in which these waters helped healing some patients who had sicknesses of various natures. Like any other scientific essay, the book ends with some questions that were still unanswered.

Je lui répondis qu’il ne fallait jamais désespérer de rien, que quoiqu’en général les boissons aqueuses fussent contreindiquées dans sa maladie, il me paraissait cependant que le natron contenu dans les eaux de St-Vincent pourrait les lui rendre salutaires.

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