A treatise concerning the medicinal Spaw waters / By M. Nessel ... Dedicated to the College of physicians of London. Translated out of French. Into English.

Nessel, Matthieu, approximately 1685-1763

Date:: [1715?]

Credit: A treatise concerning the medicinal Spaw waters / By M. Nessel ... Dedicated to the College of physicians of London. Translated out of French. Into English. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$good Qualities of the Spaw Waters have been approv’d by fuch long Experience ; and. fince that fo many able Phy- ficians, who have made Trial of the Waters. of Tougeren, have owned their good Qualities to be different from thofe of the Spa, who would not avouch, that thefe Waters mult needs grow more and more in Re- queft in Foreign Coun- tries ; this no Body could have doubted, were it not for two Reafons to the contrary. The Wars, and.the Miferies which do ac- company it, has very much interrupted. the Refort of People to Toz- gerer, as Well as to the Spaw; but there are now great Hopes, that the Peace will repair this Lofs ; and that, when there is fafer Travelling, Strangers will repair to thefe Places again, in far greater Numbers. … Après ane experience fi) longue des vertus © bons nes qualités des Eaux de Spas après le témoignage, de tant d’habiles Medé4 cins, qui ont fait Panalyfey des Eaux de Tongres, OC qui Je font declares. pour leurs bonnes qualités difs\ ferentes de celles des Eausol de Spa, qui :feroit-ce qua’ w auroit pas jure, que cés\ Eaux feroient de plus en, plas venues en reputation dans les Pais éloignés. Cet de- quoi on n’auroit! pi douter, fi deux caufes: mavoient fait contre ces Eaux falutaires, 1 200 ; ty. La guerre cy la'mifere commune gut Paccompas gne, ont fort depeuple la Fontaine de Tongres auffe bien que celle de Spa, mais il y a tout fujet d’efherer, qu'une Paix ramenera la ce rendant les chemins plus furs, les Etrangers fe | rendront en plas: grande foule aux fources de ces Fontaines. yb$