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A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added a century of observations, more fully declaring the nature ... of the baths. With an account of The lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe / [Thomas Guidott].

  • Guidott, Thomas, active 1698
Date:
1676
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Credit: A discourse of Bathe, and the hot waters there. Also, some enquiries into the nature of the water of St. Vincent's Rock, near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. To which is added a century of observations, more fully declaring the nature ... of the baths. With an account of The lives, and character, of the physicians of Bathe / [Thomas Guidott]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    shin sith i to the Reader. The Dotiors bufine® being much on otber accounts, I cannot underftand be did any thing in this, ouly in after, on the account of an Honourable Patient , for whom we then were both concern’d he takes avery kind notice of my Letters, and Experiments, and gives me thanks inthis expreffion,Clariffime Domine; Multum Tibi debeo pro Litteris & Experimentis Tuis circa Aquas Thermales mihi jam pridem mif- fis, que officia Tua ut gratiffima habeo, ita compen- fare ftudebo 3 but fent me no other fatisfaciion. A little after, baving an opportunity of obtaining the Contents of many Hogfheads of the Water, I wrought them all of, and came to anexadl feparation and diftindiion of Particulars, as expreffed in the Ob- fervations bereunto annexed,and as occafion ferved,com= municated my Experiments tomy Honoured friends, the Learned and accomplifbt Sr. Charles Scarbo- rough, Dotior Thomas Witherley, Dr. Nathaniel Highmore, and Dr. Thomas Harbech. This I think is {ufficient to take off the furmife of Singularity , of any fuch thing by chance foould be thought upon. And here~I ‘cannot but admire how a Fudicious man (ould be fo far impofed on by any perfon what- foever, as to imagine , that a fatisfatiory enquiry into the nature of thefe Waters was fo nice a fpeculation, a to be inconvenient or ufelefs [according to thefe words; I have been defirous heretofore to have to thofe Principles: but being thought (by fome) to favé my labour, which perhaps might have feem- ed not to be worth thanks.|] For, what can be more aecefary, and therefore ufeful and convenient too, than to know the Principles of any Water. we recom- mend our Patients to? andrpbat did all the Mineral Gane) out. Writers