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...Noyes's most significant telegrams were from Bernard Mannes Baruch (in Paris): "This is a particularly happy day for me as the dream of my father to have a place where the suffering could be healed and made better able to face their daily problem comes true." And "Bernie" Baruch's brother, Dr. Herman Benjamin Baruch, wired: "This indeed is a permanent monument to our dear father . . . Dr. Simon Baruch...
...Simon Baruch (1840-1921), German-born Jew of Spanish ancestry, graduate of the Medical College of Virginia, was an assistant surgeon in the Confederate Army. While in a Federal war prison he wrote a book on gunshot wounds. Excited by the hydrotherapeutic cures of Vienna's Dr. Wilhelm Winternitz, Dr. Baruch dived into the subject, wrote two text books, got the first U. S. municipal bath houses established in Manhattan in 1901, was hired (1913) to evaluate the medicinal values of Saratoga Springs. The Mohawks venerated the mineral waters of Saratoga Springs. American "Continentals," sickened, wounded and soiled...
Manufacturers of soda water pumped so much water out of Saratoga Springs for the sake of the carbonic acid gas that when Dr. Simon Baruch got there the bathing establishments were in a sorry fix. Dr. Baruch found that to take a carbonated water bath he had to fill the tub from bottles of expensive Seltzer water which had been charged from deep-flowing Saratoga Springs water pumped to the surface by greedy bottlers. The State put a stop to that by buying practically all the mineral springs, letting them idle until the water table rose high enough to spurt...
...water. The kind named Geyser contains bicarbonates of sodium, calcium, magnesium and iron It is antacid, aids digestion, relieves gastric distress. Other Saratoga waters contain chlorides of sodium (table salt), potassium, lithium, ammonium. The kind called Coesa is a mild laxative; the kind called Hathorn, a vigorous cathartic. Dr. Baruch after drinking "not wisely but too well, learned a lesson which I have often taught others -that these waters must be prescribed with care...
Though the money for modernizing the Comstock mines was reported to be in the hands of a "Raskob-Baruch-Pittman" group, both Nevada's Senator Pittman and Bernard Baruch denied any financial interest. However, the Silver Senator admitted that he was advising Mr. Raskob as counsel...