Seltzer water

saline water, slightly alkaline, highly acidulated with care bonic acid, containing more of this volatile principle than is sufficient to saturate the alkali, and the earths which it holds in solation. Itis particularly serviceable in relieving some of the symptoms that indicate a morbid affection of the lungs; in slow hectic’ fever, exanthematous eruptions of the skin, foulne of the stomach, bilious vomiting, acidity and heart-burn, spasmodic pains in any part of the alimentary canal, and bloody or highly offensive stools. On account of its property in relieving spasmodie pains, and from its rapid determination to the kidneys, and perhaps its alkaline contents, it hag been sometimes employed with great advantage in diseases of the urinary organs, especially those that are attended with the formation of calculus. A large proportion of the Seltzer water, either genuine or artificial, that is consumed in this country, is for the relief of these disorders, Even in gonorrhea, either simple or venereal, Hoffman a erts that advantage is to be derived from this medicine. The usual dose is from half a pint to a pint. See MINERAL WATERS.