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

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
Date:
1867
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Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters / by Andrew Scott Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    skin becomes covered with an eruption resembling erysipelas, accompanied by tbe sensation of burning and itching, with symptoms of constitutional dis- turbance of a feverish nature: and this artificial disease often lasts for a long time. The same train of symptoms can be induced by very free bathing in any of our sulphur waters at a high temperature, but they are by no means to be desired. I can conceive a case where such a course of treatment might be thought warrantable, but I have not yet met with one. I am, moreover, convinced that anything like those symptoms, to which the name of crisis has been given, ought, if possible, to be avoided, as all the good which can be got from the use of a mineral water may be had without it; and I believe this opinion is becoming more and more general among medical men. If mischief follows excessive bathing at too high a temperature, it is no less apt to follow moderate bathing at the proper temperature, provided it has been resorted to at the ivrong time. I do not mean time of day, but period as regards the disease. I have frequently met with people who were highly dissatisfied with the results of their course of baths, when they ought to have been dissatisfied with their