An address ... to the ... Royal Society, of London / [Bartholomew di Dominiceti].

  • Bartolomeo Dominiceti
Date:
1764
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Credit: An address ... to the ... Royal Society, of London / [Bartholomew di Dominiceti]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    a5 J kind Affiftance, and by feveral Times making ufe ‘of his graduated and medicated hot Baths, and vaporous Stoves, fhe at length recovered; and now is, and for almoft Three Months laft paft hath been in perfect Health, MARY GRIFFITHS, _ Sworn-at the City of Briftol, this 22d of February, 1764, before me Richard Farr, Mayor. REMARK IL, To fupport Truth, you, Gentlemen, with the beft Phyficians of this Realm, mutt furely aoree with floyer and Baynard, where they fay to us, ** That the “‘ arbitrary, regulated, and medicated hot Baths, and ** vaporous Stoves are the fafeft, moft agreeable, and “* efficacious Remedy difcovered to reftore and main= “* tain Flealth, being the moft ready to open all Ob- ““ftructions, fweeten the moft acrid, falt and corro- ** five Humours; and teltify, that to a healthy Per- “fon, the Water alfo in Bathing muft not be very “* hot nor very cold at the firft Time, but colder and ““ warmer afterwards according to the Cafe, Tem- “* perament and Circumftances.” And further by their own Experiences, and Authority of Hippocrates, Galen, Boerhaave; Hoffman, ($e. Po, recommend *¢ the faid arbitrary, graduated and medicated Baths, **.Stoves, Unctions and Frictions in the moft obfti- ** nate Maladies; concluding, that fuch neceflary ““Conveniences are not to be had at Bath in Somer [et- 88 fine.) Mary fefferies, Wife of Fobn Fefferies, of the City of Briffol, Shipwright, maketh Oath, and faith, that for more than Ten Years before the Year 1758, fhe