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An account of the Tilbury water. Containing a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring; experiments on the water: observations on the experiments; the virtues of the water, interspersed with various Cases; the manner of drinking it; and, lastly, several remarkable cures.
Andree, John, 1699?-1785.Date: MDCCLXXXVI. [1786]
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An account of the Tilbury water. Containing, a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring, experiments on the water, observations on the experiments, the vertues of the water interspers'd with various cases, the manner of drinking it; and lastly several remarkable cures.
Andree, John, 1699?-1785.Date: MDCCXL. [1740]
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Thoughts on Brightelmston. Concerning sea-bathing, and drinking sea-water. with some directions for their use. in a letter to a friend. By John Awsiter, M.D.
Awsiter, John, 1734-Date: MDCCLXVIII. [1768]
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Essay by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, Massachusetts : lead pipes used as conduits for drinking water : contrasted with pure block tin pipes : brief history of lead diseases, New-York, April, 1852.
Jackson, Charles T. (Charles Thomas), 1805-1880.Date: 1852
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Bell water steriliser : as supplied to the Air Ministry, Ministry of Aircraft Production and to Urban, Rural and County Health and ARP Authorities / Bell Brothers (Domestic) Ltd.
Bell Brothers (Domestic)Date: [between 1940 and 1949?]
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Society approach to Ministry of Health on risks involved in use of ortho-tolidine by staff of Public Health Departments testing chlorine residuals in swimming baths and drinking water
Date: Jun 1967-Jul 1968Reference: SA/SMO/L.49
Part of: Society of Medical Officers of Health
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Thoughts on Brighthelmston. Concerning sea-bathing, and drinking sea-water. With some directions for their use. In a letter to a friend. With an appendix, giving an account of the salt-water baths at that place. By John Awsiter, Physician, And Professor of Chemistry to the Royal Incorporated Society of Artists.
Awsiter, John, 1734-Date: MDCCLXX. [1770]
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The water-cure manual : a popular work, embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing, the hygienic and curative effects of air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water-drinking, etc. Together with descriptions of diseases, and the hydropathic means to be employed therein.
Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.Date: 1848
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Peri psychroposias, of drinking water : against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge / by Richard Short.
Short, Richard, -1668Date: 1656
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A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.
Date: [2006?]Reference: 755196i
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A man on a donkey and a woman with livestock meet at a drinking fountain. Etching after N. Berchem.
Berchem, Nicolaas Pietersz, 1620-1683.Date: [1760?]Reference: 2474157i
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(21) `Cyanide-goitre' Effect on thyroid gland of cyanide-administration in rats. Combined effect of a goitrogenic diet and a highly contaminated drinking water on the thyroid gland in rats
Date: c.1913-1927Reference: GC/205/A/3/21
Part of: McCarrison, Sir Robert (1878-1960)
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A cure for the epidemical madness of drinking tar water : lately imported from Ireland by a certain R-t R-d doctor. In a letter to his L-p / By T.R., M.D.
Reeve, Thomas, -1780.Date: 1744
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Model of the pump room at the Kissingen Baths, Germany: men and women are shown drinking the waters, while beneath them the mechanics of the water supply is shown in cross-section. Photograph, 1936.
Date: [1936]Reference: 582531i
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Hampstead-Wells: or, directions for the drinking of those waters. Shewing, I. Their Nature and Virtues. II. The Diseases in which they are most Beneficial. III. The Time, Manner, and Order of Drinking. IV. The Preparation of the Body requir'd. V. The Diet proper to be used by all Mineral Water-Drinkers. With an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general ; with some Experiments of the Hampstead Waters, and Histories of Cures. By John Soame M.D.
Soame, John, -1738.Date: 1734
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The use and abuse of sea water, impartially considered ... Together with many hints and cautions; addressed to those who wish for relief, from bathing in, and drinking that element / [Robert White].
White, RobertDate: 1779
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A treatise of warm Bath water : and of cures made lately at Bath ... plainly proving that it is more probable to cure diseases by drinking warm mineral waters, and bathing in them, than in cold mineral waters / [John Quinton].
Quinton, JohnDate: 1733-1734
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Collecting water from an improved water source
John & Penny Hubley
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Tunbridge Wells: or, a directory for the drinking of those waters. Shewing, I. Their Nature and Virtues. II. The Diseases in which they are most Beneficial. III. The Time, Manner, and Order of Drinking them. IV. The Preparation of the Body required. V. The Diet proper to be used by all Mineral-Water-Drinkers. By Lewis Rouse, M.D. To which are Annexed, two tracts, viz. I. Mr. Boyle's observations upon Tunbridge and other Mineral-Waters. II. A physico-mechanical dissertation upon water, in General, proving it to be the best Specifick for the Cure of all Diseases. With a particular Account of the Virtues of the German Waters. Made English from the Latin original.
Rowzee, Lodwick, 1586-Date: [1725]
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Peri psychroposias, of drinking water, against our novelists, that prescribed it in England ... Whereunto is added, Peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge / [Richard Short].
Short, Richard, -1668Date: 1656
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The water-cure manual : a popular work : embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing, the hygienic and curative effects of air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water-drinking, &c. : together with descriptions of diseases, and the hydropathic means to be employed therein ... / by Joel Shew.
Shew, Joel, 1816-1855.Date: 1847
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A cure for the epidemical madness of drinking tar water, lately imported from Ireland by a certain R-t R-d Doctor. In a letter to his L-p. By T. R. M.D.
Reeve, Thomas, 1700-1780.Date: M.DCC.XLIV. [1744]
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Water metabolism in pregnancy.
Date: 1979
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Women carrying water pots
The Leprosy Mission International
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Experimental observations on the water of the mineral spring near Islington, commonly called New Tunbridge Wells ... : To which is subjoined, an account of its medicinal virtues and use; and of the most adviseable methods of drinking it in each kind of case.
Date: 1782

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An account of the Tilbury water. Containing a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring; experiments on the water: observations on the experiments; the virtues of the water, interspersed with various Cases; the manner of drinking it; and, lastly, several remarkable cures.

An account of the Tilbury water. Containing, a narrative of the discovery of the medicinal qualities of this spring, experiments on the water, observations on the experiments, the vertues of the water interspers'd with various cases, the manner of drinking it; and lastly several remarkable cures.

Thoughts on Brightelmston. Concerning sea-bathing, and drinking sea-water. with some directions for their use. in a letter to a friend. By John Awsiter, M.D.

Essay by Dr. Charles T. Jackson, of Boston, Massachusetts : lead pipes used as conduits for drinking water : contrasted with pure block tin pipes : brief history of lead diseases, New-York, April, 1852.

Bell water steriliser : as supplied to the Air Ministry, Ministry of Aircraft Production and to Urban, Rural and County Health and ARP Authorities / Bell Brothers (Domestic) Ltd.

Society approach to Ministry of Health on risks involved in use of ortho-tolidine by staff of Public Health Departments testing chlorine residuals in swimming baths and drinking water

The water-cure manual : a popular work, embracing descriptions of the various modes of bathing, the hygienic and curative effects of air, exercise, clothing, occupation, diet, water-drinking, etc. Together with descriptions of diseases, and the hydropathic means to be employed therein.

Peri psychroposias, of drinking water : against our novelists, that prescribed it in England : whereunto is added, peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge / by Richard Short.

A toilet, washing hands, drinking treated water and cooking and storing food safely: how to prevent cholera in Kenya. Colour lithograph by the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, ca. 2000.

A man on a donkey and a woman with livestock meet at a drinking fountain. Etching after N. Berchem.

(21) `Cyanide-goitre' Effect on thyroid gland of cyanide-administration in rats. Combined effect of a goitrogenic diet and a highly contaminated drinking water on the thyroid gland in rats

A cure for the epidemical madness of drinking tar water : lately imported from Ireland by a certain R-t R-d doctor. In a letter to his L-p / By T.R., M.D.

Model of the pump room at the Kissingen Baths, Germany: men and women are shown drinking the waters, while beneath them the mechanics of the water supply is shown in cross-section. Photograph, 1936.

The use and abuse of sea water, impartially considered ... Together with many hints and cautions; addressed to those who wish for relief, from bathing in, and drinking that element / [Robert White].

A treatise of warm Bath water : and of cures made lately at Bath ... plainly proving that it is more probable to cure diseases by drinking warm mineral waters, and bathing in them, than in cold mineral waters / [John Quinton].

Collecting water from an improved water source

Peri psychroposias, of drinking water, against our novelists, that prescribed it in England ... Whereunto is added, Peri thermoposias, of warm drink, and is an answer to a treatise of warm drink, printed at Cambridge / [Richard Short].

A cure for the epidemical madness of drinking tar water, lately imported from Ireland by a certain R-t R-d Doctor. In a letter to his L-p. By T. R. M.D.

Water metabolism in pregnancy.

Women carrying water pots

Experimental observations on the water of the mineral spring near Islington, commonly called New Tunbridge Wells ... : To which is subjoined, an account of its medicinal virtues and use; and of the most adviseable methods of drinking it in each kind of case.