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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    [ 7° ] can well bear it, and the nature of the cafe requires it, they may fafely increafe the quantity. The on]y fenfible opera¬ tion of thefe waters is by urine; and as it fbmetimes happens they do not pafs off freely, it will be advifable to take a tea-fpoonful of fweet fpirit of nitre in a glafs of the water, and afterwards take the air on horfeback, or in any other manner, fo as to (hake the abdominal vifcera. This method feldom or never fails of fuccefs. The bed way of drinking the waters is to begin with fmall quantities, and in¬ creafe the dofes as they are found to agree; but as it is impoflible to lay down rules which can be abfolute, either with refpeCi to their external or internal ufe, the Pa¬ tient fhould always confult his Phyfician before he enters upon them.-It is a very good method to drink the waters for a few days before bathing; and as they are apt to occafion coftivenefs, it would not be amifs to ufe a little lenitive electu¬ ary, or any other fuitable laxative, to pre¬ vent
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