An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne].
- George Cheyne
- Date:
- 1723
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[ 63 ] , Supper, thefe Times being the mod proper to aflift the Digeftion, and carry off the Re¬ mains of the Food. But the Truth is, as no¬ thing is more neceflary, in a Gourde of thefe Waters, than fetting out right at firft; fo no¬ thing requires more the Experience and judg¬ ment of a Fhyfician, than the accommodating* the previous Preparations, the Quantities to be drunk, and the Medicines to be taken with them, to the Diftemper and the Conftitution of the Patient. For thefe once fettl'd, the reft generally goes on fticcefsfully. XLVIII. It is equally impofllble to deter¬ mine the molt proper Seafon for drinking Bath Waters, as it is to determine the mo ft proba¬ ble Seafon, for falling ill of a Chronical Di¬ ftemper Generally fpealeing, moft Chroni¬ cal Difeafes enrage Soring and Fall: And Guftom has made thefe Months, Sea fans for the Bath: But the Waters are ever the fame, no real Alteration having ever been obferved in them from Times, or Seafons, tho' there may be fome little Variation of their fe nib¬ ble Qualities, from the Variation of the Air, and Weather. In the hdttcft Weather, they are giv'n off for a Month fometimes, by thofe that have drunk them a long Time before. But a great many, efpecially thofe of the ten¬ derer Sort, and of cold Confutations, feel the beft Effefts from them in. that very Month. And with fome they are beft in the coldeft Weather^](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0088.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
