A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters : Also rules necessary to be observed by invalids who visit the chalybeate springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together with remarks on the immoderate use of sea water / By Hugh Smith.
- Hugh Smith
- Date:
- [1776?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters : Also rules necessary to be observed by invalids who visit the chalybeate springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together with remarks on the immoderate use of sea water / By Hugh Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![I [ 4 ] Man frequently perverts the Wifdom of Pro* vidence. t In no one Inflance, perhaps, is thisObfervatkm more clearly exemplified, than by the abfurd and ridiculous Mode of adminiftering thefe Warers. The prefent erroneous Maxims and Opinions difappoint thoufands of Invalids of the Benefit they might receive from a proper Ufe of Mine¬ ral Waters. Even the falubrious Waters of the Briflol Well are often brought into Difcredit, by the improper Conduct of Patients j and the Vir¬ tues of the Bath Waters are likewife called in queflion, by many Perfons who have returned to their own Homes with Difcontent, becaufe they have, by their own Imprudence, difap- pointed themfelves of the medicinal Efficacy of the Spring. • • • The fame Obfervation holds good with re- fpedt to the improper Ufe of Sea Water. How many daily facrifice their Healthy and Strength by dofing themfelves with Sea Water ? Many there are who, from a Kind of Faffiion, pafs a confiderable Part of the Summer at the: various Bathing-Places upon our Coafts. They profeffedly go thither for Pleafure only, and: punifh themfelves, from the ftrong force5](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30790979_0004.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
