A treatise on the nature and virtues of Buxton waters. With a preliminary account of the external and internal use of natural and artificial warm waters among the antients / [A. Hunter].

  • Alexander Hunter
Date:
1773
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Credit: A treatise on the nature and virtues of Buxton waters. With a preliminary account of the external and internal use of natural and artificial warm waters among the antients / [A. Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I, 64 ] tions ought to be made, as near as poffible* to the origin of the fifth, fixth, and feventh cervical nerves, and firft of the dorfal. The whole of this practice is diitindtly laid down by Alexander TValii anus; his words are, Si igitur ex fuperioribus partibus qua- dam affedta fuerint, nempe 0cuius, najus aut lingua, aut qua dam in facie, conjlat, quod ipfum cerebrum babe at morbum, illique pri- mario fuc cur endian Jit; fi ergo nulla ex pra- didtis partibus fenju aut motu aut utroque lafa fuerit, neceffe ejl fpinalem me dull am labor are, aut aliquem nervorum ex ipfa pro- deuntium affectum ejfe, Jlatuere. Attendito igitur diligenter, qua fit pars affeffia, aut unde initium trahat, aut a qua vertebra id aut nei'vo recipiat, atque illi curationem adhibeto: non autem, ut vulgo, fymptomati- bus tantum abfifito, Itaque refolutas par¬ tes fic internofcere oportet, animum fcien- tia anatomica adhibendo. Lib. 1. cap. xvi. The waters of Buxton are of fo happy a temperature that they may be ufed either as a warm or cold Bath, The inftant a perfon plunges into the water he receives
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