A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters. With rules for drinking the waters ; and a plan of diet for invalids labouring under chronic complaints / [Hugh Smith].

  • Smith, Hugh, 1736?-1789
Date:
[1780?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters. With rules for drinking the waters ; and a plan of diet for invalids labouring under chronic complaints / [Hugh Smith]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Man frequently perverts the Wifdom of Pro* vidence. In no one Inflance, perhaps, is thisObfervation more clearly exemplified, than by the abfurd and ridiculous Mode of adminiftering thefe Waiers,- The prefent erroneous Maxims and Opinions difappoint thoufands of Invalids of the Benefit they might receive from a proper Ufe of Mine- ral Waters. Even the falubrious Waters of the Briftol Well are often brought into Difcredit, by the improper Conduct of Patients•, and the Vir- tues of the Bath Waters are likewife called in queftion, by many Perfons who have returned to their own Homes with Difcontent, becaufe they have, by their own Imprudence,- difap- pointed themfelves of the medicinal Efficacy of the Spring. The fame Obfervation holds good with re- fpedl to the improper Ufe of Sea Water. How many daily facrifice their Health and Strength by dofing themfelves with Sea Water? Many there are who, from a Kind of Fafhion, pafs a confiderable Part of the Summer at the various Bathing-Places upon our Coafts. They profeffedly go thither for Pleafure only, and punrfh themfelves, from the ftrong Force of