Observations on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters : in which are included occasional remarks on different saline compositions / by J. Smith.

  • Smith, Joseph, -approximately 1798
Date:
1786
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Credit: Observations on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters : in which are included occasional remarks on different saline compositions / by J. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    w:^^ers, ex'*entinff in a few cafes, where the ob- ftruftion anfes from languor in the circulation,, and general debility of the whole habit. But in the many that gradually come on from fome of the caufes I before mentioned, and are rooted particularly in the glandular fyftem, in one part or other of the body ; in all fuch obftru6lions and the inumerable diforders they give birth to, thofe chalybeate waters, for want of the purgative, are totally unavailable. Nor are even thtir medicinal virtues fo properly to be afcribed to any faculty of penetrating into the different receffes of the body, as to their immediate a6lion upon the fto- mach itfelf, that great regulator of all the animal funflions; and to the corroborating alfiftance they give it, in elaborating the crude aliment, and preparing it for the reftoration of the debilitated powers of the conftitution at large. What aUerative cfFefts are we then to expeft from the Cheltenham waters, in which the ingre- dients of that denomination are comparatively fo inconiiderable, and but juft fufhcient to corre£k the dcbilitafing tendency of the purgative, as Ihall afterwards be explained; and when even on the fuppofition of their being capable of pene- trating farther into the conftitution by themfelves, the purgative by being joined with them, would reprcfs them ? Upon
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