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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    [9] Hence it. manifeftly appears, of how great Confequence it muft be to-every Patient, who has Recourfe. to»thefe Springs for the Recovery of Health, that the Phyficians he confults fhould be well acquainted with the feveral. Principles diffolved in the Waters, and with the Proper- ties and Ufes of each of them, which miuft depend on a Knowledge of the general Principles of Chemiftry * whereby the natural Effects wrought * It is much to be lamented, that of the vaft Num- ber of Phyficians, fo very few fhould thoroughly un- derftand as.they ought, the Powers and Effects of the Medicines they prefcribe. The Reafon, why this ufeful and neceflary Acquain- tauce with the Virtues and Efficacy of Remedies is fo much flighted, feems principally becaufe the Antients, and many of the Moderns, were totally ignorant of the Elements of ‘chemical Philofophy; fo that they could not. properly examine the Texture and Compofi- tion of the Simples; nor arrive at the Art of difcover- ing the Principles whereof they confiit: Whence they never obtained a previous Knowledge of their Bigs before they prefcribed the Medicines. Vide Shaw’s Hoffman, p. 2. by