A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    It is proper that fomething fliould be faid on the fubje(ft of the prefent book, and the various reafons which have induced me to undertake it. In a Treatife on the Fundlions and Difeafes of the Liver, which I publifhed fome years ago, and which has been honoured with a favour- able reception, I hazarded fome opinions con- cerning the beneficial efFeds arifing from the ufe of fome of the moft popular of our mine- ral waters; and from a long experience in private pradice, I thought myfelf juftified in afcribing much of their virtues in the cure of difeafes conneded with the biliary organs, to the watery vehicle common to all fprings, aflifted by an encreafed temperature. This opinion (in which I have the faiisfadion to have the concurrence of feveral profeflional men, eminent for their judgment and expe- rience) has naturally led to a more extended view of the fubjedt of mineral waters, and the nature of thofe fubftances that give them their peculiar feafible and medical properties i