A second treatise on the Bath waters, comprehending their medicinal powers. In general ... / by George Smith Gibbes.

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
1803
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Credit: A second treatise on the Bath waters, comprehending their medicinal powers. In general ... / by George Smith Gibbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    during the use of them. Although chemical reagents do not shew any very great differ- ence in the chalybeate impregnation in the three baths, yet the King’s Bath both to the taste and in its effects on the constitution is evidently the strongest. It is therefore necessary that patients begin with either the Hot or Cross Bath water. It is usual to re- commend at first, two or three of the small- est sized glasses of water to be taken in the forenoon, one before breakfast and two be- tween breakfast and dinner. The quantity is increased according to the effects that are produced on. the constitution. From the largest dose of the Hot or Cross Bath water, patients are recommended to the use of the King’s Bath water beginning with the small- est glasses.. All this however is regulated according to the disease and the constitution of the patient. As after taking these waters, they sometimes disagree, their use is occasi- onally to be suspended. It may occasionally be adviseable to begin in some cases with even a smaller quantity than the smallest glass at the pumps. As it a