An analysis of the mineral water of Tunbridge Wells, with some account of its medicinal properties / by Charles Scudamore. To which are annexed some observations on the water with which Tunbridge Wells is chiefly supplied for domestic purposes. By Thomas Thomson.

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1816
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Credit: An analysis of the mineral water of Tunbridge Wells, with some account of its medicinal properties / by Charles Scudamore. To which are annexed some observations on the water with which Tunbridge Wells is chiefly supplied for domestic purposes. By Thomas Thomson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    then, is a much more questionable considera¬ tion than for adults. From the observations which I have attentively made, I am induced to draw a general conclusion, that under six years of age especially, it is not a favourable remedy. The diseases of very young children are for the most part of a nature to require a distinct atten¬ tion to the bowels ; to the progress of dentition ; and a sensible arrangement of diet, exercise, and sleep, with cold or tepid ablution, or bath¬ ing ; and do not, so far as I have seen, come within the useful influence of a chalybeate water. In respect to the necessary duration of a course of the water, it may in general terms be observed, that a shorter period than three weeks scarcely justifies the expectation of any material advantage; and that a longer one than two months, or at the utmost three, is not required, to produce all the good effects of which it is capable ; so that its employment has been fairly and judiciously managed. When after considerable trial, the water, al¬ though it has quite agreed, has appeared de¬ ficient in power, I have been induced to recom¬ mend an additional dose of steel from the Materia Medica. Two or three grains of sul¬ phate* of iron, formed into pills with five or ten * It appears to me that in the medicinal exhibition of iron, it is preferable to make choice of the most soluble preparations
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