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In a dissertation attached to this twenty-sixth chapter--a dissertation
larded with illustrative extracts from Galen Celsus, Avicenna, Antonius
Musa, Oribasius Salvus and about fifty others of the ancients who
professed the healing art--Monsignor Perrelli condenses for his readers
the results of these classical experiments; he hands down the names of
these springs and their manifold healing virtues.
The Fountain of Saint Calogero, described as one of the most famous,
was lukewarm, of ammoniacal and alkaline flavour; a glassful of it
produced the most violent retchings and vomitings. Properly applied,
however, the water had been found to relieve the gout, the discomforts
of child-bearing, leprosy, irritation of the mucous membrane of the
nose, impetigo, strabismus and ophthalmia. If the patient observed care
in his diet, avoiding articles of calorific nature such as fried fish
and boiled lentils, he would find himself greatly benefited by its use
in the case of cornucopic hydrocephalus, flatulence, tympanitis and
varicose veins.


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