The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years' experience. To which are added, some rules for preserving health by diet / by John Smith.

  • John Smith
Date:
1723
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Credit: The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years' experience. To which are added, some rules for preserving health by diet / by John Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ IO ] Recrements like Cuttings of Hair, fome bove an Inch long, which Subftances were found in dll the Water that I made in above Twelve Months; for which I could get no Remedy : I was advifed to drink Water, which in about half a Year did intirely free me from thofe Symptoms, which fome out of Ignorance imputed to Witchcraft, fo that from that Time to this prefent I never have been troubled with it. Water alfo is commended as efficacious Stone in the to prevent the breeding of the Stone in the Bladder. Bladder, for it hath been obferved, that in fome who have been cut for the Stone, that new Stones have been engendered, fo that fome young Per Jons have been cut jeveral Times. Now to prevent this, the drinking Wa¬ ter hath been advifed with Succefs ; for by this that intemperate Heat in the Body was abated, which did occafion the Dilfemper. Some have advifed to drink it warm, and others cold, and in particular Van Heydon, a Phyfician of Ghent in Flanders, in his Book, entitled, Help for the Rich and Poor ; which, he faith, in p. 49. is Efficiently infinuated by Pifo and Alexander, who do allure us, That the taking a Draught of cold Wa¬ ter in the Morning, hath done fo much Good, that feveral after the voiding of a Stone never had any more Stones grow in them. Which
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