A dissertation on the contents, virtues and uses, of cold and hot mineral springs; particularly, those of Scarborough: in a letter to Robert Robinson. Esq., recorder of that corporation / [Peter Shaw].

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763
Date:
1735
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Credit: A dissertation on the contents, virtues and uses, of cold and hot mineral springs; particularly, those of Scarborough: in a letter to Robert Robinson. Esq., recorder of that corporation / [Peter Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    C <S ] dolence have the Choice; Repletion, Corpu¬ lency, inflamed Eyes, red Faces, Gouts, Ver¬ tigoes, and Apoplexies, fooner fucceed; vary¬ ing thus, into bodily, or mental Diforders. No Nation producing more fatal Inftances of the latter, than our felves : Apopledticks, rather, through a Redundancy ; Melancho- licks, by fixing what Dr. Willis calls an He¬ terogeneous Copula on the Spirits, which a long Courfe of debauching the Appetite with unfit Drinks, and feafon’d Diet will do ; and in the end, if it does not overturn, (lands ready, with any violent Paffion, to veil and cloud the Intellect, affording, among other Evils, occalion to immoral Men, to laugh at the Affinity of Soul and Body. The Drunkard and voluptuous (if they live long enough) habitually fix that weaknefs of Mind and Body that were bv Intermiffions in their temporary Surfeits. Water therefore, as far as any thing can be Infallible, is the Foundation of Cure in all Diftempers, where Age has not too far fpent the Vital Principle: It is the propereft Men- firmm to diffolve the Food, to walh off tough vifcotis Slime, that frequently lines the glan¬ dular Coats of the Stomach, and leffer Inte- flines $ gets eafier into the Ladteals for dilut¬ ing the Blood, and refloring that Fluidity, and confequently Circulation, on which Health and long Life depend. Celfus, Riverius, *jBoerhaavei Qheyne, and others, have recom¬ mended