A full and distinct account of the mineral waters of Pyrmont, and Spa ... / Collected from the best authors, and improved by Dr. Turner.
- Turner, George, M.D.
- Date:
- 1734
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A full and distinct account of the mineral waters of Pyrmont, and Spa ... / Collected from the best authors, and improved by Dr. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![iffentioh a perfon afflicted with a violent pif- | ling of blood, with great pains in the kidneys, hot always alike, but with frequent intervals, who by drinking the waters was happily deliver’d* they bringing away upon the 7th day a great Infed j which gnawed the left kidney, and thereby open- \ ed the veffels, and occafioned the piffmg fo much 1 blood, and fo violent pains. They eure rednefs of eyesy as alfo the itchy and j Other cutaneous diftempers by ufing them either I internally or externally. The remove obftruftions in the liver, fpleen and i miferaick veins, and all inflammations occafioned I thereby. Many hydroptcal perfons are relieved thereby in 1 a very furprifing manner, difcharging the waters 4 both by urine and ftool, and the lymphatick veff ij fels being too much dilated or broken, are again J confolidated and contracted by the aftringent par* ri tides in the water. They are fo comfortable to the ftomachy that by E] their agreeable aftringency they reftore it to its (j right tone, when too much relaxed, and fuch per- )] fons as are incommoded with vomitings belchingf il inccupSy and throwing up their victuals ^ do loon find j! relief after they begin drinking. They are more t! effedual than any other remedy for carrying off 3], fand, and freeing from all nephritick pains, and :<j often carry off fmall ftones; but fuch as fufpedt IS that they have great ftones in their kidneys, fq ought to ufe them with great caution, and if they | are refolved to drink them, they ought not to ufe w any exetcife, as in other cafes, but drink them 4 a bed, left the ftones be loofened and carried into || the uretersy as has fometime happened; they are I alfo very effectual for curing ulcers in the kidneys](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30778827_0139.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
