THE 
GETTYSBURG KATALYSINE WATER. 
REPORTS OF 
PHYSICIANS AND THE PEOPLE 
OP ITS • 
WONDERFUL CURES. 
HISTORY OP THE SPRING. 
NEW YORK: 
GETTYSBURG SPRING COMPANY, 
63 LIBERTY STREET. 
1868. All Orders for the Gettysburg Water and all Communications 
must be addressed thus : 
Gettysburg Spring Co., 
No. 63 Liberty Street, New York. 
Post-Office Box 5,138. 
The Water will be shipped direct from the Spring to all places so situated as 
to be .more conveniently thus supplied, than from the New York Depot. 
PRICES 
OF THE GETTYSBURG KATALYSINE WATER 
At the General Supply Depots at New York and Gettysburg. 
Per Single Quart Bottle - - - - 50 cts 
Per Case of two dozen Quart Bottles, $11 00 
Chari.es Van Benthuysen k Sons, 
Printers, Stereotypers and Binders 
Albany, N. Y. THE GETTYSBURG KATALYSINE SPRING. 
The Spring from which the medicinal fluid known as the Gettysburg Water 
is taken, is situated in a miniature valley on the McClean farm, about one 
mile west of the town of Gettysburg, Adams county, Pennsylvania. It pre- 
sents the singular phenomenon of a mineral spring having a number of outlets 
through the rocks, within a distance of several yards, and even rods, of each 
other. The identity of the water thus discharged from apparently several 
sources, is fully established by chemical and medical tests. The Spring 
enjoyed a local traditional reputation for curative and sanitary virtues before 
the arrival of the armies which contended for the mastery on its surrounding 
fields (for the first struggle commenced immediately around the spring), but 
these virtues were first practically demonstrated by some of the wounded who 
had fallen in its vicinity—so at least says one of the legends of the great battle. 
This story caused the water to be practically tried as a medicine by some of 
the citizens, and finally to be analyzed by experienced chemists—with what 
result will appear in the following pages. 
An analysis of this Spring, conducted by Professor Mayer, late assistant of 
Professor Henry, of the Government Smithsonian Institute at Washington 
gives, in one imperial gallon of this water, the following contents : 
Bi-carbonate of soda 
Grains Troy. 
) 
44 
lithia 
potash 
magnesia 
J46,05 
(1 
trace. 
76.05 
44 
iron 
r(- - - v \ 
trace. 
44 
lime 
\X• - - 
81.00 
Sulphate of lime 
53.20 
Chlorides 
. 
trace 
Phosphates 
- 
trace 
Silica 
- 
1C .00 
Total 
266.30 
The interesting disclosure of this analysis is the Carbonate of Lithia in this 
water. It was deemed so extraordinary, in view of the great interest which 
this new agent of Materia Medica is exciting in the medical world, that an 4 
appeal was made to Professor Henry, for confirmation of the analysis, to which 
the latter promptly replied— 
u I am well acquainted with Prof. Mayer, and doubt not that any analysis published 
by him is correct. Joseph Henry.” 
Prof. Henry being recognized as the highest chemical authority in the 
country, we are obliged to accept this analysis as evidence of the existence of 
a Lithia Spring in America. But chemical analyses of mineral Springs furnish 
hints,rather than guidance,to physicians or invalids, as has been well remarked 
by an eminent medical writer.. It is by the unerring test of their effects upon 
the sick and afflicted that their value as medicine is definitely determined. 
THE CURES OF THE GETTYSBURG WATER. 
The medicinal virtues of the Gettysburg Water are so various, so extraor- 
dinary, even in comparison with those of the great springs of the Old and New 
Worlds, that we have deemed it due to ourselves, and to the medical public, 
to have the facts which prove them verified, not only by the statements of 
invalids and their medical advisers, but by the corroborative testimony of phy- 
sicians of high reputation, some of whom have made the study and application 
of medicinal waters a speciality. 
In securing, however, the highest testimony in regard to the curative effects 
of the Gettysburg water, we have deemed it proper to state some facts which 
have fallen under our own observation, on our own authority, but without 
soliciting or expecting credence for our statements farther than they may 
appear reasonable and deserving. 
One of the distinguished American physicians whose attention has been 
directed to the astonishing curative phenomena presented by the Gettysburg 
Water, is John Bell, M. D., of Philadelphia. 
This gentleman is the author of a “ Treatise on Baths, and an Account of 
the Mineral and Thermal Springs in the United States and Canada,” and is 
regarded by his medical brethren as one of the highest authorities on these 
subjects. 
He has not only investigated its curative effects, but medically tried it in 
the practice of his profession,during the past year, and has stated the results 
of his investigations and experiments in several communications published in 
the Medical and Surgical Reporter, on the 28th of September and the 6th of 
October, 1867. In one of these papers he makes the following statement: 
“ Tlie water of the Gettysburg Spring belongs to the alkaline or carbonated class. 
The bicarbonates of soda and lithia and the kindred bicarbonates of magnesia and of 5 
lime, would suggest its adaptation to a long list of disorders of the stomach and bowels, 
and also of the kidneys and bladder. If we look at accounts of celebrated springs in 
Europe, of the alkaline class—Elms, Teplitz, Vichy and Mont d’Or—we shall have this 
suggestion strengthened, and learn that, in addition to the disorders of the digestive 
mucous surfaces, are those of the pulmonary, such as chronic catarrh and bronchitis, 
and humid asthma, which are relieved or cured by the waters of this class. Home expe- 
rience has anticipated the conclusions drawn from chemistry, and by analogy, from tire 
effects of the waters of other springs. It tells us that the Gettysburg "Water has pro- 
duced signally curative and restorative effects in different forms of dyspepsia—sickness 
of the stomach, heartburn, water brash, acute neuralgic pains, and loss of appetite—and 
also in chronic diarrhoea and a torpid state of the liver. Gout, chronic rheumatism, and 
resulting nodosities of the joints, have been overcome to a remarkable extent, by the 
drinking of this water. Approaching and actual paralysis have been carried off by the 
same means. In one case, diabetes, that often unmanageable disease, was arrested in its 
progress.” 
RHEUMATISM, WITH URATE DEPOSITS, OR HARD LUMPS. 
The curative effects of this water on those forms of rheumatism which depo- 
sit urates, or chalk stones, in the body, or on limbs and joints, have already 
arrested the attention of the American branch of the profession, and will soon 
command the attention of the medical world. 
As the power of dissolving these concretions and of eliminating the matter 
composing them from the human system is not as yet ascertained to be in any 
other modern spring, or to belong to any agent of the Materia Medica, it has been 
deemed expedient to establish beyond a doubt its existence in the Spring of 
Gettysburg,by reference to a sufficient number of illustrations to carry convic- 
tion to the minds of the most skeptical. 
Dr. S. E. Hall, late of Gettysburg, reports a cure of this class of rheumatic 
affection, which is pronounced by eminent medical authorities to be without a 
parallel. The patient was a Mr. Deihl, an ex-commissioner of Adams county, 
Pennsylvania. 
Mr. Deihl’s own statement of his afflictions and cure is interesting and in- 
structive to all who wish to use this water for Rheumatism or Gout. 
Cure of Rheumatism and Diabetes. 
Mr. Deihl says : 
“ I have suffered, more or less, from rheumatism for thirty years past, and for many 
years from diabetes in its most aggravated form. During ten years past, hard lumps 
have formed above and around my knee joints, as hard as stone—so that I had to be 
careful in sitting down not to bend the knee joint too suddenly, lest they would rupture 
or cut the skin. On one leg they were near as large as a hen’s egg, on the other smaller. 
The diabetes was so severe for many years that I did not get an hour’s sleep at one time, 
and it was only kept under by rigid dieting. I have tried everything in the way of cure, 6 
the remedies of all schools of medicine, including electro-magnetism and the nostrums 
of the quacks, without effect. I had in fact given up in despair, when the idea occurred 
to me of trying the Gettysburg Water. I commenced with three gills per day, taken 
between meals, which I gradually increased. For six or eight days it produced upon mo 
an effect not unlike intoxication, except that it lacked the stimulus. It also aggravated 
the diabetes to an alarming extent—after which I speedily improved in all respects and 
dispensed with my cane and crutch, which I had been previously compelled to use at the 
same season of the year. The diabetes was arrested. The lumps on one of my legs dis- 
appeared, and one of the largest of the two <5n my other leg, while tho remaining lump 
is nearly dissipated. All this was the effect of the use of this water during only six 
weeks.” 
Dr. John Bell, referring to this, one of the numerous instances of its solu 
tion of urate deposits, or the chalk stones of rheumatism, says: 
“ This case of Mr. D. is truly extraordinary. The nodes or hard tumors on the joints 
were of very unusual size. As regards their hardness and composition, we are forced to 
believe that their main bulk consisted of inorganic matter—chalk (carbonate of lime), 
true chalk stone, or urate of soda, commonly but erroneously called by the same name. 
Both of these deposits are met with on the joints in rheumatism, as well as (though not 
so frequently) in gout. Were we to suppose these swellings to bo ligamentous or carti- 
laginous, with bony matter deposited, our surprise at their disappearance would be none 
the less. Recourse to all known therapeutical agents and modes of treatment, are inef- 
fectual beyond, sometimes, a reduction of the size of the nodes of a gouty or rheumatic 
nature by absorption of a part of the outer and investing structure. But the entire 
removal of the inorganic body, without surgical intervention, has not, we believe, hitherto 
been brought about, by either internal remedies or external applications, or by both 
united. In the case now under notice, we cannot believe that the absorbents would be 
equal to the task of sucking up, as it were, the deposited inorganic matter, unless this 
deposit had been subjected to the solvent action of the blood brought to the part by the 
delicate capillaries. Whence comes this solvent property? Is it from the lithia of the 
Gettysburg Water which, after having been taken into the stomach, found its way into 
the circulation?” 
Dr. H. S. Huber, of Gettysburg, thus reports a cure of rheumatism or rheu- 
matic gout, of the class under consideration : 
Gettysburg, Pa., September 1, I860. ( 
Gbntlemen—In answer to your inquiry respecting Mrs. Culp, I would say that I saw 
her last January, when she was suffering from chronic rheumatism in her left shoulder, 
arm and hand. Her shoulder joint and joints of fingers were enlarged, and fingers dis- 
torted. She was entirely unable to use her hand. 
I advised her to use water from your Spring. 
Very respectfully yours, 
n. s. huber. 7 
Mrs. Culp says: 
11 was so weak that when I commenced the water I could not drink it, or anything 
else, without stopping to pant from the exertion. Soon after I commenced, I rapidly 
recovered the use of my arms and of my hand; the enlargements in lumps on the shoulder 
joints and finger joints disappeared; my fingers and hand resumed their natural shape, 
only ono small scar remaining in the centre of the hand, but which did not give ms 
any trouble. My strength also rapidly improved.” * 
Dr. Shearer, of Baltimore, reports a case of this description of rheumatism : 
“ Case 2.—Has had rheumatism for ten years; pain at times intense; to use her own 
language, every muscle and joint aching. Deposits of urate of soda in all the joints of 
the fingers of both hands; ankles swollen and exceedingly painful; locomotion almost 
impossible, and the patient comparatively helpless. The water was commenced in quan- 
tities of eight ounces three times a day, for ten days, then discontinued for three days, 
to be resumod as before. This was kept up for three months, with a result really sur- 
jrrisiHg. At the end of that time the deposits in the joints had diminished fully one-half; 
pain had entirely disappeared, except when attempting to walk too far, when it would 
reappear slightly in the ankle. Appetite had improved, and with it increased strength; 
when at this date the patient was compelled to leave for a distant part of the country. 
During the use of the water for the first three or four weeks, an extraordioary quantity 
of uric acid, in large crystals, was deposited from the urine; and from that period im- 
provement took place rapidly. That this patient was not entirely relieved, was simply 
because the water was not continued for a sufficient length of time. 
I might recite quite a number of cases almost as severe as the one just mentioned, 
all of whom havo been wonderfully relieved by the water; but consider it unnecessary 
to do so.” 
Quite a number of equally remarkable cures of rheumatism or rheumatic 
gout, which have reached the stage of urate deposits, are in progress in differ- 
ent parts of the country. 
One of these has sufficiently progressed for reference, and is certified by an 
authority so respectable as not to require medical verification, being no less 
than the celebrated Catholic Priest, P. E. Moriarty; 
An almost Miraculous Cure of an eminent Catholic Priest. 
St. Mary’s Church, Chestnut Hill, 
Philadelphia, December 4, 1867. 
Gentlemen—I beg leave to offer my testimony regarding the water of Gettysburg 
Spring. After a fair trial, I have the gratification to declare that my experience corre | 
sponds with all that has been asserted about the medicinal virtue of this water. I have 
suffered from chronic rheumatism for sixteen years, and during that period I have been 
on four occasions confined to bed for five months with acute inflammation. The last 
attack commenced on the 8th of December, 1866, and I believe that, in repeated fits of 8 
the acute form, I have had the greatest pain produced by this terrible malady. I was 
so crippled in every joint that I could not leave my room during eight months, and I 
expected to be in this condition for the remainder of my life. Since I commenced the 
regular use of the water, in proper doses of a gill three times a day, I have been gradu- 
ally and surely relieved, until at the present date, the rheumatic principle is entirely 
removed. I have now consumed ten gallons of the water, without any other kind of 
remedy. I am still incommoded by stiffness arising from the damaged condition of 
veins, tissues, &c., but I feel a daily improvement. So far from being at any time disa- 
greeably affected, my general health has been remarkably benefited. I advised some of 
my neighbors to use the water, and it has effectually cui’ed dyspepsia and kidney disease. 
This is the first testimonial of the kind that I have ever written, and I now send it to 
you through a feeling of duty to the community. I have delayed for a long time in order 
to avoid the slightest risk of hastiness or delusion. Most earnestly I would recommend 
this charming remedy to all persons affected by any of the ailments to which it is appli- 
cable. Tours truly, 
P. E. MORIARTY, D. D. 
GOUT. 
Though no cures of gout involving the removal of urate deposits, or hard 
lumps, with the Gettysburg Water, have as yet been reported, quite a number 
of permanent cures of this distressing and hitherto incurable malady have been 
effected through its agency, facts scarcely less deeply interesting to the Pro- 
fession and the sufferers from this disease. Heretofore the world has discov- 
ered nothing better than a palliative for gout. Neither the White Sulphur 
Springs of the United States, nor the Vichy of France, profess to supply any- 
thing else; yet these are the chief reliance of the afflicted with gout and rheu- 
matism of the two continents. That the Gettysburg Spring offers a remedy 
which approaches to something like a specific for this disease might be proved 
by reference to a number of permanent cures, but want of space will preclude 
such reference. The following cures of what may be regarded as types of 
the several forms of this malady, will suffice. 
Wandering Gout. 
The following is the statement of Hon. J. B. Danner, of Gettysburg, of his 
affliction with what has been designated as “ Wandering Gout.” Mr. Danner 
formerly represented his district in Congress. He says : 
I have been for twenty years the victim of a complication of afflictions, consisting of 
chronic sore throat, dyspepsia, liver complaint,an$ rheumatic pains in the breast, sides 
and limbs. 
All these symptoms were constantly present in a milder form, subject to periodical 
aggravations of a distressing and alarming character, as, for instance, palpitation of the 9 
heart, and temporary paralysis of both arms on the least unusual physical exercise, night 
attacks of vomiting, with excruciating agony in the stomach, kc., kc. I of course tried 
the most approved remedies and availed myself of the skill of the best physicians, but all 
without relief; I was getting worse instead of better. 
Such was briefly my condition when I commenced the use of the Gettysburg "Water; 
after which I rapidly improved in health and spirits, till I am better than I have been 
for twenty years. 
My wife has also boen cured of a stomach disease, accompanied with severe headache, 
by the water. Its effect on me has been gradual and insensible; I only know from the 
great improvement effected on my health and spirits that I have been taking medicinal 
water at all. 
Dr. Bell says of this cure : 
This gentleman’s case would, some years ago, when the disease was more common and 
more carefully observed than it is at present, have been regarded as one of wandering 
gout. 
Dr. Shearer, the physician before referred to, reports a cure of old fashioned 
gout: 
Old Fashioned Goat. 
“ Case lv—Mr. , aged 40, plethoric, sedentary habits, high liver, has been suffer- 
ing from attacks of gout for several years, averaging four attacks each year, and lasting 
from three days to a week; pain so severe as to be excruciating, confined to the great 
toe, sometimes both; suffered also from constipation, frequent attacks of sick headache, 
8tc. In all, about seven or eight gallons of water were taken, extending over a period of 
four months. Has not had the slightest symptom of his old enemy for a period of ten 
months, although exposed to causes which invariably provoked an attack previously.” 
KIDNEY AND URINARY DISEASES. 
The instances in which this water has been successfully employed by invalids 
and physicians in the treatment of dyspepsia, of kidney and urinary diseases, 
are so numerous as to prevent even a reference to remarkable cures. The 
general testimony of several physicians is substituted, with the report of a 
single cure of what may be regarded as an exaggerated expression of each 
of these diseases. 
Dr. Thomas Shearer, of Baltimore, an intelligent physician, has extensively 
introduced this water in his practice, and effected with it quite a number of 
remarkable cures. Ilis report of several of these is given under the appro- 
priate headings. 
One of the cases thus reported will prove interesting to the curious in med- 
ical lore, considered in connection with the general characteristics of the Get- 10 
ysburgh Spring. It is that of impotency, associated with a terrible and dis- 
tressing kidney and urinary disease. 
A distinguished medical writer has noted the resemblance of the sensible 
properties of this Spring to that of Forges, in the Department of the Lower 
Seine, France: 
“ This Spring enjoys,” says he, “a historic fame, from the circumstance of Ann of 
Austria, wife of Lous XIII, who had been eighteen years childless, becoming a mother 
after having made use of its waters for a season.” 
How remarkable the coincidence that a resemblance in sensible properties 
should also involve, and be accompanied by a resemblance in certain curative 
virtues. For if the Spring at Gettysburg does not cure barrenness in females 
(of which fact we have as yet no instance), it does cure its kindred infirmity, 
impotence, as certified by Dr. Shearer, and by numerous sufferers from this 
distressing and alarmingly increasing affliction. It enjoys a local reputation 
for this virtue, and for renewing constitutions and their natural forces. 
Gravel, Strangury, Impotence. 
Dr. Shearer says: 
“ A gentleman consulted me, who stated that for nearly twenty years he had been 
suffering from disease of the kidneys or bladder, or both. His symptoms were as fol- 
lows : Almost always an aching, and sometimes an acute pain across the back,in tho 
region of the kidneys, sensations as if the back were half sawed through, pain in the 
back, aggravated by standing or lying too long in bed—urine at times containing copious 
phosphate deposits; at other times, and for some weeks continuously, the urine appeared 
normal in color, quantity and specific gravity. Repeated daily tests showed that tho 
urine had a decidedly acid reaction, and an examination by the catheter revealed great 
tenderness of the membranous portion of the urethra, enlarged prostate, and extreme 
irritability of the neck of the bladder. Not much inconvenience was experienced in pass- 
ing water during the morning and forenoon, but in the afternoon the patient suffered from 
symptoms of strangury, lasting from three to four hours, and only mitigated by remain 
ing perfectly quiet. Other symptoms were, burning in the palms of the hands and soles 
of the feet, in summer; and in winter, icy coldness of the feet from morning till night, 
entire loss of sexual desire, with mental depression and extreme constipation of the 
bowels. The stomach seemed to be in good order, appetite fair, and digestion perfect. 
As no trace of blood had been discerned in the urine, or any evidence of pus globules, 
the idea of ulceration had to be abandoned. The patient had been subjected to both 
allopathic and homoeopathic treatment, but without any really permanent benefit. 
“ The patient, after six weeks’ use of the water (taken before breakfast, dinner, and 
on retiring, eight ounces each time,)felt like a new man. Unpleasant symptoms gradu- 
ally disappeared, but lest the effects might prove only a palliative, I directed it to be 
discontinued for a week, then resumed for four weeks, for two months more; and up to 
the present time my patient remains entirely well. In this case the water acted as a 11 
mild diurciic at times, although this result was by no means uniform; and while on the 
bowels no aperient action was produced, the constipation yielded very soon, and tho 
bowels are now healthy and regular.” 
Calculus, or Stone in the Bladder. 
Dr. Bell says : 
“ Even were direct evidence wanting, we are quite safe in attributing to the Gettys- 
burg Water ameliorating, and, if taken in time, curative effects, in diseases of the kid- 
leys in which calculi, or gravel of uric acid are formed and discharged.” 
ThiB learned physician did not go far enough in his conjectures, if some of 
cur correspondents are to be credited. 
One of these writes us : 
” I did not inform yon, when ordering the first case of Gettysburg water, that I pro 
posed to use it for the reduction of calculus, or stone in the bladder, by which my life 
has been threatened. I did not do so, because I had but little faith that it would do mo 
any good. I had been given up by the Doctors, who said that nothing but an operation 
could save me, and that could only be performed at the risk of life. It was under these 
circumstances that I sent for the water. I had not taken it over a week, however, be 
tore I was convinced by my feelings and by the amount of matter discharged from my 
crino, that the calculus or stone was being dissolved. 
“ Even my physician now admits that the immediate danger is past, though he refuses 
to certify that the water has done it, as he did not prescribe it, and docs not profession- 
ally know that I.have been using it. He also thinks that the calculus will re-form. But 
I bolieve that I am as good as cured, and will use the water for a year to come, if not during 
the remainder of my life. Had you not better see my physician?” 
Bright’s Disease of the Kidneys. 
Another correspondent informs us that he has been using the Gettysburg 
water on another form of kidney disease deemed incurable by ordinary reme- 
dies. We refer to Bright’s disease of the kidne3Ts. 
He says : 
‘ • I have been afflicted with a dreadful affection of the Kidneys, which two eminent 
Baltimore physicians pronounce to be Bright’s disease, and say that I cannot be cured. 
I am, however, being cured by the Gettysburg water, and will soon give a certificate to 
that effect.” 
These non-professional statements are given for what they are worth, though 
we have ourselves no doubt of their substantial correctness. Other similar 
suros are reported to be in progress, and measures are being taken to present 
’hem to the invalid public with medical verification. 
Ihc foregoing furnish illustrations of the curative effects of the Gettysburg 
water on kidney and urinary diseases. 12 
Incontinence oi Urine, Stricture, Ac. 
Incontinence of urine is almost invariably cured by it. It has been used 
as an injection for the chronically diseased urethra and uterus, with wonderful 
results, where all other remedies failed. When thus used, two or three injec- 
tions should be made in immediate succession. Stricture has thus been cured 
and avoided in connection with the use of the water as a drink. 
The remains of old diseases have also been removed by the same agency. 
Diabetes. 
The case of Peter Deihl, reported under the head of Rheumatism, was com- 
plicated with one of the worst phases of diabetes ever before cured, and is 
quite sufficient to establish the claim of this water as a remedy for this ordi- 
narily incurable and terrible malady. 
The cure of diabetes, as one of the attendants of gout or rheumatism, which 
it was in this instance, is regarded as remarkable, and of rare occurrence even 
at Vichy. 
DYSPEPSIA. 
One single cure of dyspepsia with this water, referred to by Dr. Bell, with 
the accompanying remarks of this distinguished medical writer, upon its 
extraordinary power over this hydra of disease, will suffice. It is that of 
Mrs. Tawny, of Adams county. She thus describes her own dreadful malady 
and cure : > 
“ I have been afflicted with a stomach disease, or with Dyspepsia, in one of its most 
terrible forms for some twenty years. I tried medicines and the prescriptions of various 
skillful physicians as long as I could retain medicines on my stomach. But during the 
last ten years I could not take medicines at all. I could not drink coffee or tea or other 
fluid, or even common water, without vomiting, and could barely take sufficient food to 
sustain life. I was gradually reduced almost to a skeleton, was so weak most of the 
time that I could not even sit up in a chair—was frequently racked with pains and har- 
assed with gloomy forebodings, apprehensions and depression of spirits—was, in short, 
one of the most miserable beings that ever lived. This was my condition when I com- 
menced the use of the Gettysburg water, which was the only thing that would lay on my 
stomach. I have used it for some months, and am completely recovered from my long 
afflictions. It has proved to me a veritable water of life.” 
Dr. Bell says in reference to this and other cures of dyspepsia with this 
water : 
“ The manifest sanitary influence exerted by the Gettysburg water over dyspepsia, 
naturally prompts to some remarks on the proteiform character of this disease. Imper- 13 
feet and disordered digestion, which is called dyspepsia, is attended by a host of symp- 
toms, but tho smaller number of which are directly referred to the state of the stomach 
and bowels. Tho dyspeptic often suffers from one or more of tho following secondary 
disorders, viz., headache, vertigo, neuralgia, cough, stricture and pain of the chest, asth- 
matic oppression, palpitations and hypochondriasis, and if the invalid be a female, hys- 
teria and derangements of health depending on her pecular organization. The digestive 
apparatus failing to do its duty, the food cannot be manufactured into chyle and blood of 
such a quality and in such quantity as to meet the wants of the other organs. The brain 
and nerves and muscles suffer in consequence, and perform their respective offices of 
thought, sensation and locomotion feebly, aud with effort. The heart suffers from palpi- 
tation aud irregular contraction of its muscular walls, and the blood-vessels transmit an 
impoverished vital fluid to tho organs through which they are distributed, and in which 
they deposit the nutritive matter required by each of them for its growth and perform- 
ance of its particular duty. The skin.is pale, when not sallow or jaundiced, and is cold 
and rough to the touch. From this imperfect nutrition, aided by impure air. and damp 
and dark lodgings, there ensues scrofula with its many guises, and chronic affections of 
the skin. The kidneys, which are in close sympathy with the digestive organs, soon 
evince responsive disease. Many of tlieso remote symptoms are treated as if they wero 
separate and independent disorders; and of course empirically, in place of their being 
regarded as effects of a common cause, viz.: ‘imperfect and disordered digestion.’ If 
then we have a remedy, at once simple and efficacious, for this central and primary dis- 
ease, in the Gettysburg water, we have the means, at the same time, of preventing and 
.curing a long catalogue of outlying and secondary derangements, which, if they do not 
destroy life, make it miserable and too often useless.” 
GENERAL AND LOCAL DEBILITY. 
Whether this water derives its tonic or strengthening power from the 
iron mingled with its other ingredients, is rather an interesting than a useful 
inquiry; about the fact of its possessing it there can be no controversy or 
doubt. 
Pennsylvania College, July 12, 1867. 
Gentlemen—I feel It due to you and the community to state that we have used the 
water of your spring in our family with manifest advantage, although it has not been 
used with regularity. 
The Janitor of tho College, who suffered much from rheumatism in his back and limbs, 
was greatly relieved by the use of the water. My deliberate conviction is, that the wa- 
ters of your Spring will not fail to bring relief in eases of dyspepsia, rheumatism and 
general debility, and this conviction is based upon the many cases in which relief has 
been afforded and cures effected. Tours truly, 
H. F. BAUGHER, 
President of the Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. 
General Debility. 14 
General debility arising from secret vices, or other similar excesses, hii3 
also been relieved, as well as the resulting depression of spirits and other 
symptoms proceeding therefrom, too numerous to mention, on discontinuance 
of the causes ; also the debility arising from various female disorders and 
irregularities. 
Debility of the Limbs. 
The case o/Geo. Swope, President of the Gettysburg National Bank. 
The affliction of Mr. Swope is thus described by himself: 
t: I have been for some years afflicted with a debility in both of my legs, the result of 
an old strain of one of them, which was not properly cured. The debility has of late 
years increased in a manner which excited apprehension of total disability. 
“ I did not expect that the waters of your Spring would help me, and I only tried it 
because my neighbors were trying it for all manner of diseases; but to my surprise it has 
operated like a charm. I improved so rapidly, in a few weeks, that I am now comfort- 
able and without apprehension. My friends inform mo that before taking the water I 
was bow-legged and broke heavily in walking; but that my limbs are now straight and 
that I walk as well as my neighbors. I know that I walk comfortably, without pain cxr 
debility, while formerly I could only walk with the aid of my cane, and then only a few 
squares at a time. The first effects of this water on me partook largely of the miracu- 
lous. I seemed, under its influence, to leap backward twenty years in my life, so far at 
health and spirits were concerned. This effect was of course temporary, as my recovery 
required several weeks. 
NERVOUS DISEASES : 
Fits, Hysteria, Neuralgia, &c. 
Dr. Bell has suggested trials of this water upon the nervous system, and its 
probable utility in certain nervous affections, and in what is vaguely called 
nervous debility. 
The power of this water over nervous disorders is certainly wonderful and 
inexplicable. It not only restores tone and strength to the nervous system, 
but it allays excitement and irritability, and soothes the victim of overwrought 
nervous susceptibilities. It will often bring sleep when all other remedies 
fail, and might be used, no doubt, without injury to the sufferers, to soothe 
and quiet infants. 
There are also accounts of its having proved effectual in the relief or cure 
of St. Vitus’ Dance, as well as epileptic fits, hysteria, neuralgia, nervous rheu- 
matism, and in various other affections of the nervous system. 15 
CANCERS, SCROFULOUS AND OTHER CUTANEOUS DISEASES. 
A Mr. Leiper, residing near the town of Gettysburg, was relieved of a dis- 
tressing eruption on his face and neck by the use of this water, bathing and 
drinking, when all other remedies had failed. Salt rheum, eczema, and sere 
fula are said to have been cured by the use of this water, also canceroiu 
affections. 
But its wonderful cures of dyspepsia, of rheumatism, gout, kidney and 
urinary diseases appear to have so fixed the public attention as to preclude its 
trial on this class of diseases, or to have created the impression that no water 
could prove beneficial for so many diseases. 
But our advices in regard to this application of the water, are sufficiently 
authentic to justify us in recommending its trial on the classes of diseases 
referred to. Its trial on scrofula, eczema, and other skin diseases is recom- 
mended by so eminent a physician as Dr. R. K. Stone, of Washington. 
BRONCHITIS AND BRONCHIAL CONSUMPTION, ASTHMA. 
We specially commend the attention, both of the afflicted and of the Pro- 
fession, to this water, as a remedy for all those chronic affections of the throat 
which are now so common. Recent English writers show, by well authenti- 
cated statistics, that the bronchial form of consumption is rapidly on the 
increase in that country, and the observation of every physician of extensive 
practice, in tbis oountry, will confirm the truth of the same remark when 
applied to our own people. Affections of the throat are not only very numer- 
ous indeed, but they are among the most difficult to treat successfully. If 
practically cured, they are exceedingly apt to return, and physicians testify not 
only that they generally do return, but also that the disease extends down the 
bronchial tubes, and finally affects the lungs fatally. 
The cure of the Hon. J. B. Danner, of Gettysburg, of a bronchial affection 
of twenty years’ standing, is not the only illustration of the specific virtue of 
this water. They are numerous in the vicinity of the Springs. 
Catarrhs of the throat and head are almost invariably cured by this water 
also humid asthma. 
Catarrhs of Head and Throat, and Humid Asthma. 16 
GETTYSBURG WATER AS A PREVENTIVE OF DISEASE. 
The demonstrated power of this water over uric acid, and over urates, sug 
gests its use as a preventive, as well as a cure, of disease. 
We will endeavor to make our remarks intelligible to the non-professional 
reader. Uric acid, when present in the system in undue proportions, or when 
not properly discharged from it by the kidneys, combines with the alkalies of 
the human body or with those introduced into it with the food, forming a com- 
pound called urates. Some of these have the appearance and consistence of 
cream or dissolved chalk, as they sometimes ooze from the skins of rheumatics. 
But they are of different appearance and character, owing to the alkali with 
which the acid has combined. 
The urates are formed or introduced into the blood, thus clogging the cir- 
culation and destroying its normal and healthful character. As they accumu- 
late, they are deposited around joints, in the gall and urinary bladders, and in 
various other organs of the system, thus producing such a number and variety 
of distressing and fatal maladies, that it would require a small book to cata- 
logue and describe them. The majority of the various forms of dyspepsia, of 
rheumatism, of gout, of gravel and of kidney and urinary diseases generally 
are known to be directly produced by urates. Calculus or stone in the 
urinary bladder, and the chalk stones of rheumatism and gout are bufy 
other names for urate deposits. Lehmann, an eminent European 'physician, 
has detected the presence in undue proportions of uric acid in the blood of 
fever patients. Other physicians and chemists have made similar discov- 
eries in the urine of persons afflicted with other acute and chronic diseases, 
which would seem to imply that it is at least the indirect cause of human 
ailments in the production of which it has not hitherto been supposed to have 
any agency. 
The alkaline equilibrium of the system, subverted by this absorption of its 
alkalies in the manufacture of urates, may be measurably restored by the 
administration of the alkalies of the Materia Medica and of alkaline spring 
water. 
* 
But there is no medicine nor mineral spring, except that at Gettysburg, 
which will dissolve and eliminate from the system the urates already formed, 
especially when once deposited by the circulation. Fabulous history, it is 17 
true, informs us of the existence, in different parts of the world, of springs 
which have dissolved stone in tho bladder, but modern science and exploration 
have not as yet discovered them ; as the latter have approached, these wondrous 
fountains have receded in the distance of time or space till they have wholly 
disappeared. The nearest approach of such a solvent among mineral waters is 
that supplied by the Vichy and Baden-Baden Springs of Europe; but we have 
not as yet seen any evidence of the exertion of that solvent power upon depo- 
sits of urates in the form of the chalk stones of rheumatism and gout, nor is 
it claimed in their behalf, by the proprietors of either of those springs. 
The proprietors of the Spring at Gettysburg distinctly put forward this 
claim, and sustain it by medical testimony. 
Whether it derives this solvent power from the Lithia detected in it by 
chemists, or from some other or all the ingredients combined, exerting a cata- 
lytic force, it is not material to inquire. About the fact itself there is no 
dispute, and it is this alone which concerns the invalid public. There are 
thousands, perhaps millions of the American people, who are deeply interested 
in the knowledge of this fact: for there is a large proportion of them at least, 
in whose systems there is an excess of this acid, as also perhaps deposits of 
the urates formed by it. Many of these are already afflicted with dyspepsia, 
rheumatism, gout, gravel, or other kidney and urinary diseases, &c., &c., but 
the larger proportion are either unconscious of their danger, or are only occa- 
sionally reminded of it, by headache, nausea, heartburn, flatulence, bilious- 
ness, acidity of tho stomach, dullness, depression of spirits, heaviness and 
debility, irregularity of the bowels, and various other symptoms not sufficiently 
distressing to arrest attention. 
By the class of persons laboring under the uric acid diathesis, this water 
should be used during at least one day in each week, to neutralize this acid 
tendency and dissolve the urates, which are doubtless being formed and thrown 
into circulation, and which at this stage may be easily eliminated from the 
system, and the blood purified, but which after deposition cannot thus be dis- 
charged without more or less permanent injury to the organs or portions of the 
human machinery attacked. 
llecent experiments of physicians and chemists upon the human blood and 
secretions, establish the alarming faot that there exists in our present civili- 
zation some cause or causes which have the effect of generating, in undue pro- 
portions, the fatal uric acid in our systems—probably the adulteration of our 18 
foods and drinks, against which no adequate protection is afforded by modern 
governments. 
These startling disclosures, as well as the alarming increase in all civilized 
countries, of the diseases directly produced by this acid, make it an object of 
the foremost importance to millions, everywhere, to know the truth or falsity 
of what we have stated in this connection. We therefore call some high med- 
ical authorities in support of our position and assertions. 
AS A SOLVENT OF URATES AND PURIFIER OF THE BLOOD. 
Dr. Robert K. Stone, the family physician of the late President Lincoln, 
an eminent and experienced member of his profession, examining this water 
by scientific tests alone, in advance of its practical trial as a curative agent, 
expressed the following opinion in regard to its character as a neutralizer of 
this acid, and as a remedy for its effects, which, if published at the time, must 
have subjected him to severe animadversion from the weak and fastidious of 
the profession, for its supposed extravagance, but which published now will 
be regarded as an evidence of his sagacity, and of the truth of at least a por- 
tion of that science which is coming to be so much accredited. 
“ In its general characteristics it may be classified among the ‘ Alkaline Springs,’ and 
in its composition (excepting free carbonic acid) approaches the famous water from the 
well-known sources of Vichy, in France. 
The springs of Vichy are the most celebrated alkaline, carbonated waters on the globe? 
and are universally used. They are thronged during the season by sufferers with Kidney, 
Urinary, Rheumatic and Gouty diseases from every country of the world. Experience, 
through a long course of years, has firmly settled their value as medical and curative 
agents.” 
The following is Dr. Stone’s specification of the diseases for which the Get- 
tysburg water is likely to prove a remedy: 
“ They may be used generally in all those cases in which an excess of acid proves bftrt- 
ful and unhealthy. Thus in those cases of Acid Dyspepsia, of which our country of hot 
bread and coffee-swilling propensities furnishes so many striking examples. 
'• Thus they could be.used in many cases of disease in the stomach and alimentary 
canal, of chronic teasing nature. We might mention the attendants upon Dyspepsia ‘as 
chronic blue-devils and Hypochondria. In some cases of Chlorosis in young girls, depend- 
ent on Dyspepsia and peculiar obstructions; chronic affections of the bronchial tubes, 
chronic Catarrh of the head and throat. With Dyspepsia of a certain class we might also 
enumerate torpid or engorged state of the liver, differing from Hypochondria 19 
' But most especially will they give aid and comfort to a large class of urinary dis- 
eases. in which kidney and bladder are affected, and which are dependent upon an excess 
*( uric or lithic acid. Then too the grave formations caused by the presence and excess 
„*f these acids. 
“ In this class especially, the urinary [bladder and kidney] affections, it will prove 
very useful. Then, too, in gout or rheumatism, caused by the presence and excess of 
these same acids in the system and secretions, your waters may be depended upon to 
produce great good. In scrofulous diseases, in some distressing and chronic diseases of 
the skin—of the latter, for example, the distressing chronic eczema—we may hope for 
boneficial results. 
'■ The presence of the rare base * Lithia’ gives peculiar interest to your Spring. It 
has been used to remove sharp points from lithic acid calculi in the bladder, and Dr. 
Garrod, of London, with the celebrated Ure of the same city, recommends its employ- 
ment in cases of the uric acid diathesis. Of course time alone could show its value in 
regard to the latter constituent. * * In all our large cities we find classes of disease 
which are curable by the administration of those remedies which analysis indicates as 
the constituents of Gettysburg Water. Although the same alkalies can be mixed in plain 
pure water, we know from experience that there is a chemical union or blending of these 
ingredients, effected in the laboratory of nature, which makes the agent more soluble, 
more readily taken up by the system, and therefore many times more potent to cure disease 
than the artificial waters compounded by man. 
Those who cannot be cured by these remedies, are compelled to use the Vichy water ; 
others who are wealthy proceed to Vichy, and use the waters fresh from the sources. To 
such, the presence of such a spring, identical in some respects and superior in others, to 
the famed Vichy water, would be a real 1 treasure trove.' " 
How far the prediction of this eminent physician, that this water would 
prove to be one of the best neutralizers of this acid, and solvents of urates, 
ever known, has proved to be “history written before the fact,” appears from 
the foregoing statements of attending and examining physicians, who have 
reported its curative effects; as well as from the testimony of the highest 
authority in this country. 
A CURE FOR THE INEBRIATE. 
It may be important to add, to what has been stated, that those accustomed 
to use the alcoholic stimulants of the day, will find in this water a remedy for 
its effects superior to any ever before known. It not only speedily restore 
the tone of the stomach and other organs impaired by the excessive use of these 
deleterious agents, but in its exhilarating and tranquilizing effects on the ner- 
vous system, supplies to a large extent the place of the accustomed stimulus. 20 
EXTERNAL APPLICATIONS. 
Attention is invited to external applications of this water, and to vapor 
baths, as curative agents, or as auxiliaries to internal administrations. 
All the European medicinal waters are thus applied, and the Gettysburg 
water forms no exception to the rule. It has already been thus applied with 
excellent results. 
DIRECTIONS. 
Properly, the directions for using this wrater should be given by the attending physi- 
cian of the invalid, if there be one, who knows all about the case. 
But unfortunately those who usually seek the aid of medicinal waters have failed to 
receive benefit from the ordinary remedies of the profession, and are not often on the 
best of terms with their physicians, a state of things which would not exist if these extra- 
ordinary remedies of the profession were more generally available. In the absence of 
special knowledge of each case, physicians who have made the study of medicinal waters 
a speciality can only give general directions. 
Time of Drinking. 
Rule 1.—Dr. John Bell, who is one of the authorities on this subject, says in his book, 
page 31 : 
“ The proper time for drinking mineral water is early in the morning, an hour at least 
before breakfast, when the stomach is empty, most impressible, &c., &c. The water 
ought not to be drunk when the stomach is engaged in the process of digestion; and of 
course not for several hours after a meal, especially dinner.” 
Dr. Moorman, in his work on the Virginia Springs, says: 
“ A common practice at the Springs is to drink a short time before each meal, morn- 
ing, noon and afternoon. In some cases this manner of using it is to be preferred; in 
others it is better that the whole to be taken be divided into two parts, and taken either 
in the morning before breakfast and a short time before dinner, or in the morning and 
before going to bed at night. Observation leads to the belief that, as a general rule, the 
water taken before breakfast and before going to bed at night, is most serviceable to a 
majority of invalids.” 
Quantities to be Taken. 
No specific quantity of water can be prescribed as a dose for every person afflicted 
with the same disease—much less for every person, without reference to the disorder. 
Only an approximation to such a quantity can be made in the absence of specific know- 
ledge of the person and his or her affliction. 
Rule 2.—Persons afflicted with diseases of only a few weeks or months’ standing can 
and ought, as a general rule, to drink a half pint of this water at a time, that is to say, 
about an hour before breakfast, an hour before dinner, an hour before supper or on going 
to bed, making a pint and a half in twenty-four hours, providing that the invalid retires 
three or four hours after eating supper. 21 
When headaches, or sudden attacks of nourolgia, or other dlscasos to which it is appli- 
cable, are to be overcome, it may be takon evon in largo quantities, viz., a couple of 
half pints within the space of half an hour of oach other. 
When nausea arising from improper use of alcoholic stimulants or other pernicious 
drinks or foods is to be overcome, a gill only should be taken at first, and followed soon 
after with copious draughts of common or drinking water. 
Persons aftlictod with chronic diseases of years standing, must drink less of this water 
at a time. It is the alterative effect that is to bo obtained in such cases, and this can only 
be had by taking it in small doses, not large enough to produce a cathartic, purging or 
diuretic action, as most people suppose. Dr. Moorman says: “That the alterative or 
changing effects of the water are its most valuable effects, and if it produces active, pur- 
gative, and diuretic effects, its alterative action is correspondingly delayed.” 
Rule 3.—For old chronic diseases, except rheumatism, gout and gravel, the invalid 
should take four gills per day : one in the morning, as before stated; the others, an hour 
before dinner and supper, and on going to bed. 
Rule 4.—Persons afHicted with chronic rheumatism, gout, or stone in the gall or 
urinary bladder, would do well to confine themselves to three gills of this water per day, 
taken iu the morning, as before directed, before dinner, and on going to bed. With this 
dose the greatest cures have beeu effected, especially with rheumatism complicated with 
urate deposits or hard lumps. 
If aggravating symptoms occur, stop the water until they subsido, driuking freely of 
common water, over and above the requirements of thirst. 
After subsidence of the aggravating symptoms, the invalid should resume with a half 
a gill or less of this water, and gradually increase the quantity till three gills per day 
are taken. The aggravating symptoms are a good sign, but may be avoided by small 
doses at first. 
Rule 6.—Persons taking this water for chronic diseases of all kinds, would do well, 
after taking it for eight or ten days at a time, or until signs of disturbance of the system, 
or unpleasant symptoms are experienced, to discontinue it for two or three days, to 
allow nature to come to the aid of the water in mastering the disoase; then resume as 
before. 
IIow Long to be Taken 
Rule 6.—M Thero Is no greater folly in the use of mineral waters,” says Dr. Moorman, 
“ than that of laying down a dofinito period of time for which they should be used.” 
“ I have,” says Armstrong, in his work on Sulphur Waters, “ seen both chronic inflam- 
mation of the liver and of the rectum, where no benefit was produced for three or four 
weeks, and yet a continuance of the waters for six or eight weeks longer has effaced 
every vestige of the morbid indications. * * * In somo cases of Ophthalmia and of 
slight cutaneous affections, I have known them (sulphur waters) to effect a cure in two 
or three weeks; while in other cases apparently similar in all respects, twice, thrice, or 
even four times that period has elapsed before the cure had been accomplished.” It is 
so with the Gettysburg water. It will seldom cure two persons of the same diseaso in 
the same length of time. 22 
Rule 7.—It ought not to be necessary to state that aggravating or originating causes 
of disease ought to be avoided. There is no chronic disease without some cause, either 
excessive indulgence in the passion for strong drink, tobacco, or otherwise, improper 
food taken, the need of sufficient clothing, or want of exercise. Though avoidance of 
the cause will not of itself cure, yet no cure can be effected without it. 
\ The use of this water should be continued for a few months after a cure of an old 
hronic disease, so as to prevent its return. 
Invalids must not expect that this water will in every instance produce upon them the 
same sensible effects as it produced upon some one else, or that it will produce the same 
effects upon them at all times. At one time, or upon one person, it may produce a 
cathartic or diuretic effect; at another time or upon another person it may produce only 
one or neither of these effects, and yet it may gradually and insensibly cure. Some of 
the most important cures have been wrought without either of these effects, and where 
other medicine had to be taken to regulate the bowels. 
The Gettysburg Spring is not a thermal one, but from it freely comes pure cold water 
which in warm weather ought to be kept in a cellar, and cooled for use by standing 8 
bottle or pitcher of it in a bucket or pail of cool spring or well water, or by standing it 
in sawdust and ice. 
Patients are respectfully requested to inform the Company or their agents of any 
beneficial or other effects of the water. Certificates of cures ought always, if possible, 
to be accompanied with some statement from physicians as to the nature of the disease. 
Those not wishing the publication of the names must say so, when their wishes will be 
respected. This action on the part of patients is a duty which they owe to society, and 
it will be recognized on the part of the Company as a great favor, aiyl reciprocated 
accordingly. 
PERSONS WITH WHOM THE GETTYSBURG WATER DISAGREES. 
The number of those with whom this water permanently disagrees is few indeed. Per- 
sons have sometimes taken it and experienced unpleasant symptoms, and have concluded 
that it disagreed with them, but at other times have taken it and been cured of serious 
ailments. 
But persons commencing the use of this water ought always to begin with small doses 
by way of testing the condition of their system. Some of the most important cures have 
been and are now being effected with the water on persons upon whom it has produced 
aggravating symptoms after taking it for a few days, or even weeks. And in proportion 
to the seriousness of aggravation, especially in rheumatism, has been sometimes the cura- 
tive effect. This aggravation js manifested in intensifying the symptoms, sometimes in 
eruptions or boils, &c., &c. When these symptoms appear, the patient should discon- 
tinue the water till their subsidence, drinking in the meantime, over and above the 
requirements of thirst, of common water. Aggravating symptoms do not generally fol- 
low the use of this water, even by rheumatics, and it is believed may be avoided by 
using, in such cases, small quantities, say three gills per day. 23 
DYSPEPSIA AND DIABETES. 
Mr. I. II. Telfair, of 204 Pearl street, New York, writes, under date of 
March 25th, 1868: “I take pleasure in certifying that your water has, I 
believe, effected a radical cure in my case, which consisted of biliousness in 
its most aggravated form, together with slight symptoms of diabetes. I com- 
menced using your water some two months ago, and to-day enjoy better health 
than I ever enjoyed in my life, both mentally and physically.” 
RHEUMATIC NODES. 
Mr. Joseph L. Cook, of Peekskill, New York, writes, March 16th, 1868: 
“ I have taken only about three bottles of Gettysburg water, and think it has 
been good for my complaint, which is chronic rheumatism. When I com- 
menced drinking the water, there was a lump on my left knee-joint as large as 
a walnut, which had been more than a year coming, and to my surprise, last 
week, I found it was missing. I also think I am much better in health other- 
wise, as I have but little pain of late.” 
ENLARGEMENT OF THE JOINTS, FROM RHEUMATISM OR GOUT; 
AND A CASE OF DYSPEPSIA. 
Mr. W. H. Dunbar, employed in the New York branch of the eminent book- 
sellers of Boston, Messrs. Ticknor & Fields, writes from 63 Bleecker street, 
New York, under date of March 24, 1868: “ I believe it to be my duty to 
state that I have been completely cured of a severe affliction of gout, or rheu- 
matic gout. The attack was preceded, for several years, by weariness and 
heaviness in my lower limbs, which culminated in increased debility, heaviness 
and pain in my lower limbs, and which gradually extended to the right arm 
and forefinger and thumb. The big toe of the left foot, both ankles, the right 
knee, the right shoulder and arm to the elbow, and the two forefingers and 
thumb were much enlarged. There was great debility in the limbs, and I was 
unable to walk more than a square without exhaustion, and I was unable to 
use the arm except with difficulty. I took the water in quantity of one gill 
on rising in the morning, an hour before breakfast, one gill an hour before 
dinner, and one gill on retiring. I have taken about one-half of a case of your 
water, in all. Its effect was gradually curative and strengthening, and the 
lumps were removed. , 
“ It has also cured my wife of dyspepsia.” 24 
CAUTION. 
Since the discovery of the extraordinary curative virtues of the Spring at 
Gettysburg, a few years ago, quite a number of similar discoveries have been 
announced in different parts of the country. 
It is easy to foresee that as soon as the Gettysburg Water is introduced 
generally into the market, there will be counterfeits and other worthless fluids 
under the same or a similar name, palmed off. on the public, and it is proper 
to state that the genuine water is put up only in quart bottles, and for the 
security of those who use this Water, the proprietors have adopted and secured 
the title of GETTYSBURG KATALYSINE WATER, and all genuine water 
from the Gettysburg Spring will have the full title, as above, branded on the 
corks and blown in the bottles. 
Any signs of a cork-screw or other instrument about the corks, or the want 
of words branded, as named, is presumptive evidence of fraud. 
Put up in cases of two dozen bottles each. 
For sale by Druggists generally. All communications must be addressed 
to the GETTYSBURG SPRING CO., No. 63 Liberty street, P. 0. Box 
5,138, New York.