A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1792
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Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    generous temperance, rather than a severe abstinence; their dinner should consist of plain animal food, easy of digestion and nutritious; to this should be joined a due proportion of farinaceous aliment and esculent vegetables. Broths or soups, with any kind of animal food that agrees best, may be eaten with modera- tion. The best drink during dinner is pure water, and patients of this class may indulge themselves after dinner with a few glasses of generous wine, taking care to keep strictly within the bounds of temperance ; for when- ever the spirits are thus artificially raised, they afterwards sink proportionally, and the next day the hypochondriac finds his anxious cares, and the gloomy state of his mind redoubled. For breakfast, milk, chocolate, or cocoa will be much better than tea, which in nervous complaints, and weakened and relaxed stom- achs is always improper; but besides the per- nicious effects of tea upon such constitutions, its use is highly improper for those who are drinking the chalybeate waters. It is surpriz- ing that this should not have had due atten- tion paid to it, but a simple experiment which I related in the treatise on the Crescent Wa- ter, cannot fail to convince every one of the impropriety
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