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

  • Robert Willan
Date:
1782
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Credit: Observations on the sulphur-water, at Croft, near Darlington / By Robert Willan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    V > . ^ • ( 51 ) only remedy. 1 may fay with fafety, the water of Croft is not inferior to any of thefe, as appears from a number of fuccefsful cures, all the particulars of which would take up more room than the prefent performance can admit of. There are fome anomalous diforders, > t , ■ » ^ . • likewile, in which it is of fervice. Gravel may be particularly mentioned, which frequently depends on a languid circulation, and improper fecretion in the kidney. The water, I find from ex¬ periment, has a much more confiderable and permanent effedt as a diuretic than common wrater; muft therefore be well adapted, by increafing the flow of urine, to wafli out fabulous concretions from H 2 the r
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