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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    [ er] ployment for any one individual; whereby that which till then had been but one Branch of a Science, was converted into a Trade, and fuch a Variety of difhonourable Artifices have by the courfe of time been in- troduced therein, to render it more lucrative, that now, we have one Medicine often ufed as a Succedan- eum for another, and few amongftt the many hundreds in vogue are duly apes Be How therefore is the Phyfician’s Repiltation: to be fupported, if he be a Stranger to the diftinguifhing Cha- | racteriftics and Qualities of Medicines? His Dependance muft, in fuch cafe, be intirely on the Skill and Fidelity of ‘the Apothecary, who is often in- capable of anfwering for the Genuine- nefs of his Medicines, becaufe they aré not’ prepared by himfelf, ‘but «pro- cured’ from the Shop of fome Drug- C 3 elt