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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    I t 33 ] able, how foon thofe that fuffer from this caufe grow better at Pyrmont. The fteel, which is drank with the water, and the bracing volatile fluid, accounts fufHciently for it; and certainly the wholefome, dry, and bracing air of Pyrmont, and the conftant living in the open air, which is ufual there, contributes greatly to promote the effedt. It is very agreeable to fee the change that takes place on many invalids, who arrive pale, and fo weak, that they hardly are able to walk: in lefs than a fortnight the rofes revive on their cheeks, and they can walk for miles with eafe. Many nervous difeafes, occafioned by the relaxation of the conftitution, are thus cured by the Pyrmont water. But in thefe cafes the water ought not to be given in fo great a quantity, as in thofe nervous cafes that proceed from obftrudtions, or bad humours, we mean, retrogreflion of eruptive matters; nor fhould there be any diflolvent remedy ad- miniftered with the water. Purging, and every thing which debilitates, is contra-indi¬ cated, and the ufe of tonic and bracing medi- D eines.
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