Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters / by Andrew Scott Myrtle.

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
Date:
1867
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters / by Andrew Scott Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    receive the greatest good in the shortest time. Such is my experience, and the reverse has been the experience of hundreds of visitors who have taken the waters at their own hands. It is no unfrequent occurrence to find that, even under the best advice and strictest care, patients get wrong whilst drink- ing all mineral waters; sometimes they seem to develop the evil that may happen to be lurking in the system, so that a bilious, or gouty, or rheumatic subject becomes, for a time, more bilious, gouty, and rheumatic with each dose of water; and it requires prompt and judicious steps to be taken, so as to bring, as it were, good out of evil. The same remark holds true regarding the outward application of mineral waters ; and many a patient has cause to repent his having had recourse to the warm sulphur bath, when, for reasons which he could not com- prehend, but which would have been readily re- cognised by a medical man acquainted with its properties, he ought not to have resorted to it at the time he did.