Gettysburg Water
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General
Gettysburg.
The Salt of a Mineral Spring at Gettysburg, Pa., U.S.A. Trituration.
Clinical
Bone, affections of. Hip disease. Potts'disease. Scrofula. Ulcers.
Characteristics
Magnesium sulphate is the predominant ingredient of Gettys., but the water contains many salts of alkalis, and earths with a number of metals. Lithium is contained in it. Its action is very like that of Silica (which it contains). It is indicated in caries of vertebrae or hip; ulceration of joints, when the discharge excoriates. Scrofulous children.