A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters : Also rules necessary to be observed by invalids who visit the chalybeate springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together with remarks on the immoderate use of sea water / By Hugh Smith.

Hugh Smith

Date:: [1776?]

Credit: A treatise on the use and abuse of mineral waters : Also rules necessary to be observed by invalids who visit the chalybeate springs of the Old and New Tunbridge Wells. Together with remarks on the immoderate use of sea water / By Hugh Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Morning, very much the worfe for it, becaufe 46 thereby they hinder Perfpiration, cc Imperceptible Perfpiration lightens the Body *c more than all the fenfible Evacuations together * 6C Sleep every one may perceive himfelf 66 lighter, without any of the fenfible Secretions \ iC becaufe he r-eally is fo, Pounds. “ Sixteen Ounces of Urine are generally evacuated *c /fe Space of one Night y four Ounces are eva~ ic cuated by Stool, and forty Ounces and upwards *c Perfpiration. cc is as much carried off by infenfibk Per- C€ fpiration in the Space of a natural Bay, as by fi Stool in the Courfe of Jive Bays. cc JFite muft then be thought of thcfe Phyficians cc who, in all Manner of Difiempers, have Regard 6C only to what is evacuated by Stool and Urine3 and never take any Notice of the Bifcharges by infenfible Perfpiration ?55 * * Infenfible Perfpiration is a very comprehensive Ex** preffion. It means not only what is daily carried off by the Pores of the Skin, but what paffes off likewife by the Breath, which Sandorius informs us amounts to half a Pound in the Courfe of a Day. It alfo comprehends the internal glandular Secretions. But fuch as wilh to be further informed, may confult his Aphorifms at large. I am well aware of the Difference of our Climate and Man* ner of Living. Sandorius was Profeffor at Padua in Italy, where thefe Obfervations were made.—But Dr. Keil of • i Northampton confirms the Principles; although he differs Something, but not to affed our Arguments, in-the daily Evacuations. Thefe #$