The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of serveral 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
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The curiosities of common water: or the advantages thereof in preventing and curing many distempers. Gather'd from the writings of serveral 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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![C *9 ] doth affirm, That warm Water drank free¬ ly in a Morning fafting, and at Meals, (and I fay cold Water is as gooa) hath been a fove- reign Remedy for rfloring lofl At pe rites, and (irengthemng weak Digefhons, when other more, pompom Medicines have faded. And he ad- vifeth Gouty Per Tons, after Excefs either in Meat or Drink, to Jwill down as much fair Water as their Stomach will beary before they go to Bed, whereby they will reap thefe Advantages, either the Contents of the Sto¬ mach will be thrown up, or both Meat and! Drink will be much diluted, and the La¬ bour and Expence of Spirits in Digejlion much faved. And indeed I have found by long Experience, that nothing caufeth fo good a Digeftion as fair Water; but this requires Time to free us from the Uneafinefs that an ill Digeftion caufeth, whereas Vomiting is an immediate Remedy, and frees a Man from k upon the Spot. We are told by Sir John Floyer, in his Treat?fe of Bath and Mineral Springs, That Vomiting with Water is very ufeful in the Gouty Sciatica, Wind, Short mfs of Breathf Hypochondriac Melancholy, and Falling* Sick- nefs; which Diftempers are generally de¬ rived from evil Matter contained in the Stomach, as is likewife Giddinefs in the Headf and Apoplexies, with which myfelf once feemed to be threatned ; for after eating a plentiful pinner, I was feized w^h Giddie 4 Qs /](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515786_0023.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
