A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    0 there is no good reason why it should not continue to be used. y, id; ; it Ji; b:jy •]/ j After enumerating a great many cures per- formed by the Harrogate waters. Dr. Stan- hope very properly observes, that if some from prejudice should say that some have gone away and reaped little qr np benefit, I will answer, 1. All distempers are not curable. 2. Did they take and follow proper advice for a sufficient time? 3. Did they use that water which was most suitable to their case ? But, be sure, let strangers that come for their health, take the following necessary rules a- long with them. 1. Take the advice of some ingenious physician, who is a judge of the nature and contents of these sundry waters, and of the patient’s case. 2. For a day or two use such precautions as he shall judge convenient. 3. Be regular and moderate in diet during the use of these waters. 4. Suit the degree of your present heat and cold to the present season of the weather. 5.. Be armed with patience to wait the issue of those waters for a convenient time, which is at least a month. 6. If the waters work kindly, do not mix them with physic.” I have mention- ed these directions in full, because they are perhaps