A treatise on the mineral spring at the New Tunbridge Wells, near Islington, with rules for drinking the waters : and a plan of diet for invalids labouring under chronic complaints / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D.

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789.
Date:
[1790?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the mineral spring at the New Tunbridge Wells, near Islington, with rules for drinking the waters : and a plan of diet for invalids labouring under chronic complaints / by the late Hugh Smith, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Blotches andJcorhutk Eruptions upon the Skin, All bilious Complaints without a Fever. Diforders in the urinary Paffages, Paralytic and Gouty Complaints^ See, &c^ It is not my prefentBufinefs todeferibe at large this terrible Lift of human Infirmities.—It is a painful Taftc to enumerate them. Unfortunately^ the greateft Number are too well known, and too fenfibly felt, by Patients themfelves. The following Obfervations, however, may not be unfeafonable. Nervous Symptoms deceive Men more than any others; and when thefe Errors have got faft hold of the Conftitution, the Pa¬ tient becomes intolerably wretched—^he fancies at Times that he labours under moft of the Difeafes before-mentioned ^ and being wearied out, with trying different Preferiptions in vain, his Patience is exhaufted, he defpairs of Relief, and gives himfelf over as loft. Neverrhelefs, his perhaps may not be fo bad as he fup- pofes it to be, if there be any tolerable Degree of Strength remaining in the Conftitution. It is true, that his Misfortunes center in one general Evil; and produce, in the true and literal Senfe of the V/ord, a wandering Gout, This is a formidable and a treacherous Enemy. It oftentimes affails us unexpecledly, and if the Patient be not happy enough, by fteilful Treat¬ ment, to have it eradicated altogether,, or at lead