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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    t ] or to mix it with wine* tho’ the inhabitants there¬ about are accuftomed to drink it without any in- conveniency, but to fuch as are not ufed to it, it muft prove hurtful, for it carries the vi&uals too foon out of the ftomach, which is very prejudi¬ cial. The next thing to be confider’d, is the aifand the weather, and tho’ thefe are not in mens power, as eating and drinking, yet they ought to confider how their bodies are affe&ed thereby, and as the air conftantly furrounds, and preffes upon our bodies, the pores, and alfo the motion of the liquids in the external parts of the body, are much alter’d, changed, and infenfible per- fpiration fometimes increafed,at other times much leffen’d, or intirely taken away thereby; and the feveral changes of the weather oceafion various changes in the body; fo that the effefts of the waters upon the fame perfon and difeafe, are not always alike, but exceeding different and various. Tho’ a temper ate, warm air is belt for drinking the i waters, yet this not depending upon our choice, it frequently happens, that we have a hurtful, cold and moift air, as well in the Dog-days, as in the | month of March, and if at fuch a time one is either drinking the waters, or come to the wells for that purpofe, he muft not wait for good wea- j ther, but muft go on, and guard againft the bad effefts both of wind and weather, the beft he i can; and the beft and fafeft way is, to warm the t waters a little, as if it were in winter, and to keep by a good fire, and in a large room, where there is conveniency for walking. And as there ! are fome perfons very phlegmatick and weakly, who cannot endure the cold, it may be proper for them to drink it in bed, and a very little warm- td} providing they don’t make a cuftom of it, but after
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