An essay on the medicinal efficacy and employment of the Bath waters illustrated by remarks on the physiology and pathology of the animal frame with reference to the treatment of gout, rheumatism, palsy and eruptive diseases / [Edward Barlow].

  • Barlow, Edward.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An essay on the medicinal efficacy and employment of the Bath waters illustrated by remarks on the physiology and pathology of the animal frame with reference to the treatment of gout, rheumatism, palsy and eruptive diseases / [Edward Barlow]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    m so doing, I mean not to involve my readers in any abstruse or elaborate speculations, but to confine myself to such general facts as none will dispute, and to observations the truth of which I hope fully to demonstrate. A more copious and detailed account of the general principles which I maintain was pub- lished some years ago in an essay that appeared in the 9th and 10th vols. of the Edinburgh Medi- cal and Surgical Journal; respecting which, I have only to remark that my subsequent expe- rience, founded on a tolerably extensive practice both in acute and chronic diseases, has daily confirmed my conviction of the soundness of those principles, both pathological and practical, which it was the object of that essay to illustrate and enforce. To repeat what was there minutely and circumstantially detailed would, perhaps, be unsuited to the present work. While I refer my medical readers, therefore, to an essay that has been before the profession several years for illustrations which that essay copiously presents, I shall, on the present occasion, state more com- prehensively the same principles, with a view to illustrate by their means the more extended use of the Bath Waters, which I believe to be emi- nently salutary in the cure of diseases.