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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    [ 28] Medicine; and. that: they have aftrin- gent, as well as aperient Ingredients in’ their Compofition, which it is im- poflible {hould be fo accurately pro- portion’d in their Parts; as to be adapted to every Individual; nay in+ _ deed, it is impoffible that any com=-’ pound } Medicine fhould be {0 adjufted, in all its Parts, as to agree with every one that takes it. Why then fhould we expedt more from Bath Water, which is _ only a natural compound Medicine ? - And why fhould we imagine, that when the Waters difagree with the Sto- mach, there fhould be no other Method’ of correcting that Fault, but the order~ ing them to be taken in a fmaller Quantity, or blended with other Medi- cines? when | it is evident that each of the above recited Principles in the Watet, ° is capable of producing it § sail “Effedts, and may be adapted. to