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

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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$[ ^5 ] therwiie : And I remember that one Dr. Betts being confulted in a Cafe where the Eruption did not come out kindly, did order Two Quarts of cold Water to be drank as foon as could be; upon which they came out according to Expectation, and the Party did welh \ -* ' : J ’Tis alfo certain, that in what we call Burning Fevers, Water is found to be a fafe and effectual Remedy. It is faid by Dn Primroje, in his Popular Errors, That many great Phyficians have commended\ the Drinking cold Water in Difeafes, and they attribute to it the chief Place in Fevers* where the Sick muff drink largely; for thus taken, it will quench all Heat, pag. 374® And Galen is faid by an Englijh Author, to reprove Crafiftratus for denying cold Water in Burning Fevers; and fays, That this is a Remedy for any Fever9 provided it be drank in great Abundance. With which Opinion I find Dr. Oliver to agree* who, in his EJfay on Fevers, fays, That m Fevers we mufl drink oftner than 1 bird calls for it, and fuch Draughts as are plentiful ; and the Drink he prescribes, is either cold Water or Barley-Water. Dr. Wainwright affirms alfo, That Water is proper in Fe» vers and that the Ancients gave as much o of it, as the Patient could drink. And by another ’tis faid, That if you give the Patient nothing but Water for Three D I Days, BurnlHg Fevers*$