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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    until the time of his leaving the hofpital, three times a week, when he was difcharged cured, May the 19th, 1784, having been in the hofpital this lafl time three months and feven days. This cafe is a ftrong inftance of the bene- fits to be expected from attention and per- feverance in the ufe of the Bath waters.— That medicines could not effedt a cure may be fairly concluded from the patient having been ill three years before his admiflion to the hofpital; and that the waters alone could not obtain the defired end is evident, by the necefiity of medicines to remove the fever raifed by the effects of the waters. Another thing to be obferved is, that the patient recovered ftrength during the time the ufe of the waters was intermitted. This frequently happens; and inltances might be given where the waters have appeared to have no influence over paralytic limbs during the time of their application, and yet the patients have recovered, without ufing any other application after their return home. CASE