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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![[91 3 operation of the waters, efpecially confidering that the lovers of it can never keep within bounds. 4tbly. Eating too foon after drinking the waters before the primvi<e are for the moft part freed of it, is alfo a very great fault, for the vifiluals are carried off too foon by the waters which re¬ main, and undigefted juices carryed into the bowels, &c. which occafion cholicks, obftruftions of the glands, &c. The waters give the patients a good ftomach, fo that they both eat too faft and too much, efpecially at night, and with all kind of fruits and other things they frequently bring upon themfelves all forts of diforders and intirely defeat the good effects of the waters. jthly, patients are frequently very diforderly in their ordinary drink, fome as foon as they have done drinking the waters drink a great deal of coffee, tea or chocolate, and thereby difturb the operation, and drown the bowels with too much moifture, fo that what the mineral water has, by it’s fpirituoufnefs and fubtile irony earth in fome meafure ftrengthened, is either relaxed anew, or the good effects, in a great meafure pre¬ vented ; if the defign be to warm the cold water, it would have been better to have warmed it a little before drinking it, than to do it with other warm water, after the cold has had it’s bad effeft upon the vifcera, and the mineral waters are thereby too much diluted and weakned. 6thly, They that drink too much wine during the courfe of drinking the waters, do great hurt to their healths, as we have already obferved. l] Patients are generally of opinion that they ought lj to drink plentifully of wine in order to fortify jj their ftomach, and they that love it comply very ihearfully with this rule, and if before they begin tQ](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30778827_0099.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
