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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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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    indeed, it will be impraclicable to give the intel¬ ligent Reader an adequate Idea of the daily Abufe of Chalybeate Waters, without entering a little into the immediate Caufes, as well as the curative Intentions, of chronic Complaints. For this Purpofe I muft introduce to his Acquaintance a moft accurate medical Inquirer: an Author that has ever been in the higheft Reputation with all Men of Learning who have perufedhis Works. The following Aphorifms of Sandtorius are ap¬ plicable to chronic Complaints, and will fully illuftratethe prefent Subjedl. His Authority is not to be doubted j and I beg the Aphorifms may be perufed with Attention. Sanctorius’s Aphorisms. If a Thyfician zvho has the Care of another s Health is acquainted only with the fenjihle Sup- plies and Evacuations, and knows nothing of the Wafte that is daily made hy Irfenfthle Eerfpi- ration; he will only deceive his Patient^ and fiever cure him, Eo evacuate too much hy Stools Urine^ or % Sweaty and perfpire lefs than ufualy is had, Whenfoever Nature is difturhed in the Eufinefs of Perfpiration, foe foon begins to be defective in many more of the animal FunSlions, Ilhey who feed or purge in the Hours when they fhculd moft perfpirCy which are thofe in the ' Morningy