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] I have had in the Pains of other Parts, whereby I judge, that in all Pains whatever, the drinking of Water is proper, as well as in the Gout; and accordingly I find cold Water advifed to be drank largely for the Cure of the Head ach from hard Dunking-, that Pain Proceeding from the fame Caufe the Gout does, namely, from Heat, as all Pains do, that are not from Bruifes. It is faid alfo by Dr. Wainwright, That in the Itch, Scurvy, Leprofy, and in all hot inflammatory Diflempers, fuch as Pleuriftes, Rheu mat if ms, and St. Anthony's-fire. Water is a proper Remedy ; but he advifeth to drink it hot in lome Cafes, as doubtlefs ought to be done in Plcurifus. He alfo faith, That Water is proper in Head-aches, Catarrhs, Vapours, Falling-Sicknejs, Dullnefs of Sight, Melancholy, Shortnefs of Breath, Scurvy in the Mouth, and Windinefs in the Stomach : And, for Wind in the Stomach, I, by long Experience, have found it the beft Remedy, who, in the former Part of my Life through a diforderly Diet, and ' drinking firong Drink likeoth rs, was never free from windy Belchings, and fometimes ve¬ ry fickifh Qualms after Meals; from which at length I was delivered, hy drinking on¬ ly Water at Meals, fo that for above Forty Years I have been feldom troubled: And if I find my fell troubled, a Pint or more * i . • * - ’ -. » » t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515786_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
