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

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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$[ 33 ] with the greateft encomiums of the fervicc they have received from the Pyrmont water, to re-eftablifh their digeftion. Dr. M. was lately informed by a prince, well known all over Europe, that he had received ex¬ traordinary benefit from a long courfe, of feveral years, of the Pyrmont water in fmall doles, which, as he never was at Pyrmont, he drank at home, at about one or two glalfes every morning, an hour before breakfaft. Nor is it difficult to con¬ ceive, that the water fhould poffefs inch vir¬ tues, when we recolledt what has been laid of the effedt of this water upon the vifcera of the lower belly. Does not the iron, toge¬ ther with the volatile principle, brace the fto~ mach,and re-eftablilh its powers,whilft the dif- folving materials open the obftrudted vifcera, and promote the fecretion of the juices necef- lary for digeftion ? Weaknefs of the inteftines have frequently been cured by Pyrmont water; and Dr. M. relates a very remarkable inftance of it, vol. II. p. 225. That the Pyrmont water is a remedy which will, in fome degree, repair the injuries oc- \ rationed by venereal exceiies, is well known; and-$