Practical reflections on the uses and abuses of Bath waters. Made from actual experiments and observations / [William Baylies].

  • William Baylies
Date:
1757
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Credit: Practical reflections on the uses and abuses of Bath waters. Made from actual experiments and observations / [William Baylies]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [3] dies; to undetfand their Powers, Virtues and Effects, in different Con» ftitutions, and to be well affured in all Cafes, what they can, and what they cannot do. For this Reafon, when I came to Bath, it was my firft Defign to colle& from all the Writers, an accurate Account of the good and bad Ef fe&s of the Bath Waters, in diffe- rent Difeafes, that I might thence Jearn, not only to avoid an impru- dent Adminiftration of them; but alfo, from a Knowledge of their con- {tituent Parts, lately demonftated by chemical Experiments, might be able to reafon with fome degree cf Cer- tainty, how, and by what mechani- cal Means, they produce the feveral Changes which happen to the Perfons who drink them. B 2 . Such