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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    [12] difadvantage, and. prefcribed . with proper Adffiftance, from Pharmacy?» I well know, the Gentlemen of the Faculty who have been long :re- fident at Bath, will reply to this Ob- fervation, what the Quickfilver Do- ver, and fuch other Pretenders to Phyfick, have always urged to the weighty Arguments that have been ad- vanced againft their DoGrine, name- ly, ‘Experience is all in all; for “¢ (fay they) Cafes in which thefe “< Waters have been to this Day ufed “ as an effectual Remedy, will al- ‘© ways be the Cafes for the Cure of “ which Patients will refort to Bath; “and as we are taught by daily “ Obfervation, how they have been « prefcribed in Diforders wherein they “ have been fuccefsful ; we are thence “* better able to direct their Ufe, than the moft. ingenious Rationalift, : 6c who