Plain and easy directions for the use of Harrowgate waters. Adapted to the meanest capacity ... / [William Alexander].

  • William Alexander
Date:
1773
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Credit: Plain and easy directions for the use of Harrowgate waters. Adapted to the meanest capacity ... / [William Alexander]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    that, if' the iiilphur-vv^ater is to do any' fer- vice, it will not be by taking it In quantities large enough to purge every day ; it will therefore be better ior fcrophulous patients to drink it as above directed in the fcorv)q only with this differences that, - about twice a-weeks they take as much of it as will give them a fevo fcools ; as fcrophulous people can be-ar purging, without lofs of flTength, which thofe that are fcorbutic cannot, and as a lit-- tie purging may, perhaps, co-operate with the other intentions of the waters. Let fuch patients alfo wafh their fores, e-« vening and morning, or oftener,, in the, fuL phur-water, a little warm. They ihould alfo bathe in it twice a-week, if their conftitutions will bear it; lay rags dipped in it over their fores, and change them pretty frequently. All I think neceflary to add on this fob- jed is, that, if any benefit is expeded from the water, In this difeafe, the patient muft ftay longer than almoft for any other; and, after all, we can only tell him, that, per¬ haps, the violence of his diftemper may be K checked