Of bathing in the hot-baths, at Bathe; chiefly with regard to the palsie, and some diseases in women. In a letter addressed to Doctor Freind / [John Wynter].

Wynter, John, 1699-

Date:: 1728

Credit: Of bathing in the hot-baths, at Bathe; chiefly with regard to the palsie, and some diseases in women. In a letter addressed to Doctor Freind / [John Wynter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$[ <° J (frequently in Conjunction with (q) Her¬ cules) did prefide over Waters. About this Time this City was named Urbs Aqua ‘Palladia in Latin, to which the Britijh Caer Palladdur anfwers. It does not appear when the Patronage of Hercules was join’d to that of Mi¬ nerva, but by the Figure of him in Bas-Relief, now to be feen in our Walls, it is plain he was honour’d here, and doubtlefs had his Statue plac’d in the Temple of Minerva 3 and I am of Opi¬ nion that what Mr. Camden calls fome- thing of an antient Image of (r) Her¬ cules, grafping a Serpent in his Hand (now not to be found) was the local Her¬ cules, with the (f) Reed in his Hand, his proper Enfign, as tutelar Deity of (^) Erant hi duoDii crtifjJL'jouuo\ }y Avvaol, SC Aquarum opera focia curam habuere. Athe- naaus, Mufgrave. (/•) Nefcio qua: Herculis antiqua Image anguem manu conftringentis, p. 170. if) Ut in nummo videre licet apud Fa- brettum (Mufgraye). Waters :$