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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    [ 4° ] now a lady in England, who, after many mis¬ carriages, was fo reduced, that fhe thought fhe fhould never have a child, and for that reafon thought proper to try what the Pyrmont water might do for her, and accordingly came in thefummer, 1785, to Pyrmont, drank the water and ufed the bath; and a few months after fhe left Pyrmont fhe became with child, and in due time was delivered of a fine girl, who is fall alive. We do not pretend that abfolute fterility, occafioned by organic de~ fedts, can be cured by the Pyrmont water, or indeed by any method whatever. But when it arifes from obflruffions in the vefiels of the 'womb, from weaknefs, or ill date of health, from obdrudtions in the vifcera of the lower belly, or a fcarcity of the monthly courfes, or a relaxation in the uterus itfelf, as feemed to be in the cafe juft now related, much may be expedted from the Pyrmont water. There is no danger at all in giving the Pyr¬ mont water to children, even without milk, or in bathing them in it, if their health re¬ quire any fuch remedy. Many indances could PC mentioned, where infants received benefit from
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