Gettysburg
by John Henry Clarke — A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica
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 vertebræ or hip; ulceration of joints, when the discharge excoriates. Scrofulous children.