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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![[ 50 ] of cold Water, in lefs than half an Hour, will fet me free, by drinking of it. And that Water is the beft Remedy for the Mifehiefs that come by hard Drinkings Experience teacheth ; there being nothing that fo e3e£tually frees from thofe naujeating mi reaching Qualms the next Morning, as the drinking aPint or more of fair Water; which effe&ually allays the Inflammation of the Bowels, occafioned by ftrong or hot Drink, which fpoils the Strength of the Stomach, as it doth the Strength of all other Parts ; nothing being a greater Enemy to the Vi¬ gour of the Nerves and Sinews, fince by much Drinkings Men make themfelves unable to ft and or go: Which Effeft would never follow, if Liquors that abound with Spi¬ rits, were ftrengthening ; and if they were ftrengthening, the Fibres of the Stomach would not be fo weakened after drinking ftrong Drinks,as to make Men fick ; which Sicknefs will foon bd recovered by the drinking cold Water, this being alio the beft Remedy, if taken largely, for that JH at of Urine which is often occafloned by Hard-drinking. In Col is, Water is the beft of all Drinks to prevent Floods of Rheum from the Nofe and Mouth, as my long Experience teftifies, arid the drinking therefore will psvem Coughs j for a Cough will leldorn. fucceed](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515786_0034.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
