Volume 1

Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the Cicer Venereum, or ... ; the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, used in their baths and at their tables. Illustrated with its figure.

Date:
1759
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the use of bathing; warm and cold: and the diseases it will cure without a doctor. With an account of the Cicer Venereum, or ... ; the celebrated restorative among the antient Greeks, used in their baths and at their tables. Illustrated with its figure. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    nearly allied to thefe in their fymptoms, give way to the fame remedy. There is no headach but may be cured by it: and if it were more pradtifed in Eng¬ land,, we fhould hear of fewer apoplexies. The convulfive afthma, which mocks th& common remedies, will be cured by this. More has been faid in favour of its effi¬ cacy : but thus much fure experience war¬ rants. More may'be true ; and farther expe¬ rience may hereafter equally confirm it: in the mean time this is enough to recommend the practice. Indeed if there were no other benefit to be received from it, the certain re¬ lief it affords in habitual headachs no one of which ever withftood it, were fufficient to authorize all here faid in its favour.
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