Narrative of the efficacy of the Bath waters : in various kinds of paralytic disorders admitted into the Bath Hospital, from the end of 1775, to the end of 1785.

  • General Hospital or Infirmary (Bath, England)
Date:
1787
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Credit: Narrative of the efficacy of the Bath waters : in various kinds of paralytic disorders admitted into the Bath Hospital, from the end of 1775, to the end of 1785. 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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    [ ] December the 24th, his pain continuing, he vas ordered to apply fix leeches to his temjles, and to take about one-third of a graii of tartar emetic twice a day for fome days Jaiuary 5, 1785, he again began to bathe, pum>, and drink the water, which he con- tinue! till February the 4th, mending daily 5 when his pain returning, he was bled to eight ounces, took a gentle purgative, and had tie blifter on his neck repeated. Feb 18, fome pain of his head remaining,; he was bled to fix ounces, which gave him relief, Fie alfo took a gentle purgative. Fe?. 21, he began to bathe and pump againwith great advantage; and on March 9th, 1785, after fifteen weeks flay, he was; difcha'ged cured. The above cafe affords a remarkable in-l fiance that pretty confiderable evacuationsti may te ufed during a courfe of the Bath wa- ters, vithout deflroying their good effedls. | The patient was thrice bled, took fourk dofes of purging phyfick, befides what eva- - orations were procured by the antimonials,! and hid two blifters. Yet bating the fymp- toms
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