Lapis Albus

(Silieo-FhioTide (if OaUium.)

This fancy name, Lapis Albus, is given by Dr. Grauvogl,to an unnamed Species of gneiss, wtiich he first found held in suspension, in the waters of the mineral springs of Gastein, Germany.

These springs start from the foot of theTauern mountains, and flow down- ward into Ihe valley of Achen, over formations of Gneiss.

The substance proved, was a trituration of tliis solid Gneiss rock. ' Dr. Granvogl calls it a white primitive calcium gneiss; tlie late Dr. Bellows, of Boston, in 1867, before Grauvogl's discovery, arrived at the same conclusion as to the poisonous effects of this rock, based on observa- tions made in Derbyshire, England. He calls it a 8iUen-FMoride irfCaU Hum, the analysis ofwhich is, Calcium, fourteen parts;

Fluorine, flfty-flve parts; Silicium (siles), fifteen parts; water, fifteen parts. "It is a dry, white, glimmering, impalpable salt."

, OmctNAi. PBttPABATiorfS. — Until a careful scientific analysis of the rnck used by Grauvogl is made, we must only consider as officinal, tritn ralioas of the Gneiss from the springs of Gastein, Germany.

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AKjlLOeUBS. — Areenician, Caaium, Onndurangu, Silica.

(None Lut fi'agmentary provings, made by Grauyogl, with the sixth

trituration.)

" Burnmg, stingiTtg pm'fis m the ea/rdia and pyloris; in the female breast and uterus; sometimes the pains were of considerable intensity." {Grauvogl.')

The waters containing this gneiss, wlien drank for some time, rendered cancerous sores, as well as other ulcers, decid- edly worse,

" After drinking the water for seven weeks, my thyroid gland began to swell." (-^5.)

The inhabitants of the Achen valley, along the river, have thick necks and goitres of immense size.

" Carcinoma of the cheek in a woman fifty yeare of age. (It had produced an opening as large as a silver dollar; this hole gradually filled up, the complexion of the jiatient entirely changed, she obtained a healthy color, instead of ■ her pi-evions yellowish and cachectic appearance.) (-^S-)

" Many cases of pronounced cancer, (75.)

" Scrofulous affections, abscesses and sores. (/?,)

° AH affections of the glands and lymphatics. {lb.)

° Glandular tumors, where physiologically no glands are usually found. (/5.)

" Tuberculosis, unbroken carcinoma, scrofulous. (/5.)

" Fluor albus. (lb.)

"Five cases of uterine carcinoma (so pronounced by allopaths) permanently cured (these eases were reported to Dr. Von GrauvogV).

" I have not yet seen an open cancer cured by this remedy."

" It must not be given to persons who have suffered previously from intermittents, or other malarious diseases, as it engenders relapses of those diseases." (/J.)

" Goiire, eretimsm, and scrofulous diseases, caused by the waters in Derbyshire, England, which contain Fluorine, Lime and Silex. " I have used this salt, Sill co-Fluoride of Calcium, in at least ten complicated cases of scrofulosis, with good result." {Dr. Bellows^

" More than fifty physicians have i-eported to me many inter-

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eating eases of tumors, and other scrofulous i cured by this salt." {Ih.) Some of the mineral springs of California, eontaining particles of gneiss in auspcnsion, have considerable reputation for the euro, of cancers and obstinate ulcers. {Sale.)