The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, Alexander, -1773
Date:
1788
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Credit: The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fant to the tafte ^ and was then of fome repute, being much commended, for ** ulcerous and calculous Concretions of *' the Kidnies; taken inwardly; and for ** old Sores outwardly. Dr. Venner, in the third edition of his yia re5la ad Vitam longam, publifhed in 1650, has an exprefs Treatife on thefe Wa- ters j in which he tells us, that they re- ceive their virtues from Sulphur and Nitre; from one of his patients voiding a black ftoo], he alfo fuppofes Iron ; and fays that thefe Waters were chiefly frequented on account of the Stone 3 that it notably cools all inflammations of the in-ward parts, and yet does not offend the ftomach ^ and is, withal, of a gentle mundifying quality in difl:empers of the H^idneys. In a word, he commends it in all thofe difeafes for which it is celebrated even at this day, excepting the Dtabates, Dr,