A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author.

  • Heinrich Matthias Marcard
Date:
1788
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Credit: A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3‘ 3 fuch diftempers, when caufed by obftruftions, were cured by the Pyrmont water, and fome of them are circumftantially mentioned iii the defcription of Pyrmont, but cannot be re¬ peated here. For the fame reafon it would feem, that the Pyrmont water is beneficial under thofe circumftances, it proves effectual againfl the confequences of ill-treated agues, and, what is very remarkable, it has prevented the frequent returns of that complaint, when other remedies failed : but it ought not to be drank at a period when there is adtual fever. Another general caufe of many chronic difeafes, is relaxation or weaknefs. Plow the diftindlion ought to be made between nervous debility and relaxed fibre, is pointed out in the larger work, Vol II. pip. They are cer¬ tainly two very different things, and though often combined, yet by no means exift always together. It is a dangerous thing to fuppofe, as many have done, that all nervous diforders originate from weaknefs, becaufe it leads to¬ wards a tonic plan of cure, which, in feveral cafes, produces very difagreeable effects. It is true, that in thofe called nervous diforders* the
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