Remedies, Cures and Old Time Practice

Medicinal Properties of the Springs

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“Many healing springs had unique properties and
therefore were targeted to specific ailments. The
chalybeate, or iron-rich water of Jerico Spring in
Cedar County was touted for kidney and stomach
diseases. At Monegaw Springs in St. Clair County, there
were over 100 springs in the space of a city block,
"and no two of them are exactly alike in their
properties," wrote Walter Stevens in "Missouri: The
Center State." "Scientific men" from the government
were sent to investigate these springs in 1851 and
their findings were that "this sulfur water was
without superior in the U.S." Physicians were said to
have sent patients there before the Civil War.”