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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    / [ 42 ] mont bath, though commonly ufed warm, is remarkably bracing and lengthening, and does not affedt like other warm baths. It feems to have a particular tonic effedl on the Ikin, as it renders it, for a while after the bathing, quite rough and hard, when common warm baths make it foft and fmooth. Indeed this effedl of the Pyrmont bath is not to be wondered at, if we look at the Ikin of the people juft coming out of the bath, which is reddilh, and covered with a great quantity of ochre, or iron earth, which is in fo great quantity in this water. But it will be proper to mention tere thole cafes where it ought not at all to be ufed. Any feverifh complaint whatever forbids the ufeof Pyrmont water, I mean real fever; for there is a kind of nervous ftate, which might be taken for fever, without being really lb^ where the water would prove beneficial. During the continuance of an ague, Pyr¬ mont water Ihould not be drank, though, after it has ceafecf, no remedy has, in fome cafes of frequent recidives, proved more effectual to prevent its return. We
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