Observations on the sulphur-water, at Croft, near Darlington / By Robert Willan.

  • Willan, Robert, 1757-1812.
Date:
1782
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the sulphur-water, at Croft, near Darlington / By Robert Willan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ral relaxation. On the fame account it is ufeful in fluor albus, * and other • . * - diiorders incident to the fair fex. Old gleets will alfo yield to the ufe of Croft water: in one particular inftance I knew it fucceed after the cold-bath* Scarborough, and other medicinal waters had failed*. It is often very ferviceable to many, with whom fea-bathing difagrees, whe¬ ther the fait-water be too ftrong for w7eak and delicate conftitutions, or the fea air too keen and piercing. Weakly and de- * Menorrhapia from relaxation, and confe- quent fterility, are moil properly treated in this way; nor is Croft Spa without its fame in thofe inftances. F licate