An essay towards a natural, experimental and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Ireland. Wherein the several impregnating minerals, being investigated by a series of experiments, each water is reduced to its proper class ... / The whole illustrated with tables, exhibiting a clear view of the experiments in concert, and a comparison of the Irish to the English, and other foreign waters.
- John Rutty
- Date:
- 1757
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay towards a natural, experimental and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Ireland. Wherein the several impregnating minerals, being investigated by a series of experiments, each water is reduced to its proper class ... / The whole illustrated with tables, exhibiting a clear view of the experiments in concert, and a comparison of the Irish to the English, and other foreign waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![| Prunés once in a week during the ufe of the water, which [water] operated chiefly by urine, and the latter part of the time, kept his belly foluble, gave him a good appetite and alacrity ; nor did it chill him tho’ . ufed at this time of the year, (a circumftance unfavour- able to his cure) however November 10. he returned to Dublin much better in his hands, but withal had a. _ greater appearance of the white fcurfy eruptions, eyen _ on fuch parts of his body where he had them not before.) His diforder continued in a milder way thro’ the next winter and fpring, and next fummer he went a- gain to the fame waters, and continued their ‘ufe, by drinking and bathing moft part of the feafon, and took them in nearly the fame dofe as before, which for ‘a while, threw out the fcurfin greater abundance, and: raifed a great heat and itching in the palms of his ‘ hands, but at length, his Skin became clearer, tho’. the waters did not peafs well thro’ his bowels this fe- cond time of ufing them, probably for want of a pro- — per regimen, which had he obferved under proper — directions, and continued the ufe of the waters long e- nough, it is highly probable his cure would have been compleated, | “A 3. A gentleman aged thirty-five, hereditarily fcor-_ butic, had for two years a white fcaley Scurf almoft — covering the palm of one hand, without any confide- rable itching. : i oT Baa ae In. Fuly 1751. being a very wet -feafon, he began the ufe of thefe waters, and drank at the fountain three pints in a day for three weeks, premifing, and » fometimes interpofing a purge of Giauber’s Salt, whereupon the white Scurf vanifhed. | It is true, he had fome return of his diforder in’ September following by an appearance of .a roughnefs, fiffures and heat of the fame part. He was advifed to repeat the ufe of the fame waters, with. a profpect of greater advantage in a better feafon, : F de y 3 Ae A 5 = o og oe Beha](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515142_0456.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
