Practical observations on the medical powers of the most celebrated mineral waters, and of the various modes of bathing : intended for the use of invalids.

  • MacKenzie, Patrick.
Date:
1819
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Credit: Practical observations on the medical powers of the most celebrated mineral waters, and of the various modes of bathing : intended for the use of invalids. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    INTRODUCTION. Tpie fashion which now obtains of paying annual visits to watering-places for the purpose of preserving health, or of recovering it, when impaired, by the use of some favourite fountain, or bath ; and the frequent occasions which I have had of observing the injurious effects of the abuse of Mineral Waters, and of the various modes of bathing, have induced me to collect the opinions of the best writers on these subjects—to arrange them with my own observations, and thus, as it were, to concentrate the scat- tered lights of knowledge to direct the. invalid in search of the lost treasure.