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
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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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    and bladder, incontinency of urine and diabetes, if ufed with due precaution. In fcorbutick cafes they are found to be an ex¬ cellent fpecifick. The inhabitants of Spa are free from head-aches, catarrhs, heart-aches, ftone, and obftruclion of the fpleen and liver, and it is rare to fee any of them incommoded with jaundice, gout, fcab or epilepfy. By all which it appears that thefe waters have a lingular virtue not only for the prefervation of health, but alfo exceed moft fhop-remedies for the cure of difeafes, and that with expedition and fafety, and great gentle- nefs, and may be ufed by all perfons, old and young, in moft conftitutions, and all feafons of the year. Notwithftanding of what has been faid of their Angular virtue and efficacy, yet no perfon ought to prefume to order them in all kind of diftempers as an univerfal remedy ; for in the opinion of very wife phyficians they are not good either in Epidemical or Endemial diftempers, as the Plague, Poifoh, Pox, Cancer, Apoplexies, Epi¬ lepfy, true Palfies, Afthma’s, &c. in which, thoJ fometimes they may accidentally give relief, yet they are by no means a fpecifick for them. It would be proper now to give an account of the method and rules that are judged necelfary to be obferved in the ufe of the waters; but as in the precedingTreatife on the waters of Pyrmont the learned author has given a very full account of that method which after many years experience he has found to be the beft and moft fuccefsful, and has laid down fuch rules as are very proper to be obferved in the ufe of all mineral waters, and as they are very applicable to the Spa waters,
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