Observations on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters, in which are included occasional remarks on different saline compositions / [Joseph Smith].

  • Smith, Joseph, -approximately 1798
Date:
1796
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Observations on the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters, in which are included occasional remarks on different saline compositions / [Joseph Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    4 ( 12 ) plaints, and defirous of making the bed life of their time, drink them to excefs ; and by fo doing, they make the very word ufe of it they poflibly can. For as the evacuation, by fuch a proceeding, is generally greater than the confutation can bear, however well guarded the purgative may be by the other ingre¬ dients, their appetite and drength mud pecedarily fail •, their fpirits flag, and not finding in other re- fpecds, during the little day they make, all the be¬ nefit they expelled, they go away difappointed and diiTatisded : not confidering that an evil that has been long in edabhfhing itfelf in the habit, will na¬ turally require a long perfeverance in the antidote for its removal; and that a regular adjudment of the antidote to the powers of the conditution, is indif- penhbly neceffary in all cafes whatfoever. Could they but be reconciled to diminifh their daily pro¬ portion of the waters, and make up the deficiency by a longer perfeverance, more would be referved for the red of the company, and greater benefit would accrue to themfelves from the alteration. A third caufe of the fcarcity is, that many accuf- tom themfelves to fend in the morning for the wa¬ ters ; and though a pint is fufficient for the general¬ ity of drinkers, a quart is the fmalled quantity that is ever carried away; and more frequently two or three quarts. For the fervants, notwithdanding they may have no occafion for the waters, often choofe to drink them as their betters do. On
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