84 results filtered with: Hydrotherapy - Early works to 1800
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Directions for warm and cold sea-bathing; with observations on their application and effects in different diseases. The second edition, enlarged. By Thomas Reid, M.D. F.A.S.
Reid, Thomas, 1739-1802.Date: 1798- Books
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Febrifugum magnum: or, common water the best cure for fevers, and probably for the plague. By John Hancocke, D. D. Rector of St. Margaret's Lothbury, London, Prebendary of Canterbury, and Chaplain to his Grace the Duke of Bedford.
Hancocke, John, -1728.Date: MDCCXXIII. [1723]- Books
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A letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Cloyne, occasion'd by His Lordship's Treatise on the virtues of tar-water. Impartially examining how far that medicine deserves the character His Lordship has given of it.
Jurin, James, 1684-1750.Date: MDCCXLIV. [1744]- Books
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Hydrological essayes, or, A vindication of hydrologia chymica : being a further discovery of the Scarbrough spaw, and of the right use thereof, and of the sweet spaw and sulpherwell at Knarsbrough : with a brief account of the allom works at Whitby : together with a return to some queries, propounded by the ingenious Dr. Dan Foot, concerning mineral waters : to which is annexed, an answer to Dr. Tunstal's book concerning the Scarbrough spaw : with an appendix of the anatomy of the German spaw, and lastly, observations on the dissection of a woman who died of the jaundice, all grounded upon reason and experiment / William Simpson.
Simpson, William, M.DDate: 1670- Books
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A rational discourse of the inward uses of water. Shewing its nature, choice, and agreeableness to the blood; Its Operation on the Solids and Fluids; In what Constitutions and Times proper; How it promotes necessary, and abateth hurtful Evacuations: In what Diseases Restorative, and wherein Prejudicial. By Tho. Short, M.D.
Short, Thomas, 1690?-1772.Date: 1725- Books
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Scarbrough--Spaw: or a description of the nature and vertues of the spaw at Scarbrough Yorkshire : Also a treatise of the nature and use of sea, rain, dew, snow, hail, pond, lake, spring, and river-waters, where more largely the controversie among learned writers, about the original of springs is discussed. To which is added a short discourse concerning mineral waters. Corrected and augmented throughout the whole, together with an historical relation of cures done by the waters. By Robert Wittie Dr. in Physick.
Wittie, Robert, 1613?-1684Date: 1667- Books
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John v.6. Wilt thou be made whole? Or, the virtues and efficacy of the water of Glastonbury in the county of Somerset. Illustrated in above twenty remarkable cases faithfully described, of Persons who by the Use of that Water have been cured of Disorders of the most obstinate and deplorable Kinds: Such as the Asthma, Rheumatism, Dropsy, King's Evil, Deafness, Blindness, Wens, Cancers, Ulcers, Old Swellings, Leprosy, &c. These Cases, being but a few out of a vast Number and Variety that may be collected, are certain Facts, and fairly proved, either by the Affidavits and Hand Writing or Marks of the Persons cured, taken in the Presence of sensible honest People, who knew them and their Cases both before and after their Cure; or by the Attestations of the Ministers and Church-Wardens of their respective Parishes; or by credible and impartial Witnesses, living in Parts too remote from Glastonbury, to have any Connexion with the private Interests of that Place, that should in any Sense weaken the Sufficiency of their Testimony. To which is prefixed a Letter of an ingenious and sensible Clergyman, taken from the Sherbourn and Yeovil Mercury of the 29th of April last. Collected by an inhabitant of Bath.
Date: 1751- Books
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A new and curious treatise of the nature and effects of simple earth, water, and air, when applied to the human body: how to live for many weeks, months, or years, without eating any thing whatever: With The Extraordinary Histories Of Many Persons, Male and Female, who have so subsisted. To which is added, an appendix, Containing Pathetic Remonstrances And Advices To Young Persons, And To Old Men, Against the Abuse of Certain debilitating and degrading Pleasures. By James Graham, M. D. Formerly sole Institutor, Proprietor, and Director of the Temple of Health in the Adelphi, and in Pall-Mall, London.
Graham, James, 1745-1794.Date: 1793- Books
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Fons sanitatis, or, The healing spring at Willowbridge in Stafford-shire : found out by the Right Honourable the Lady Jane Gerard, Baroness of Bromley / published for the common good by Samuel Gilbert.
Gilbert, Samuel, -1692?Date: 1676