Observations on the nature, the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters : including some conjectures and queries on different saline compositions / by J. Smith.

  • Smith, John, 1721-1797.
Date:
1796
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Credit: Observations on the nature, the use and abuse of the Cheltenham waters : including some conjectures and queries on different saline compositions / by J. Smith. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    not to ruffle the conftitution fo much as other phy-* fic adminiftered in a draught of the ufual form, (as has been already explained) yet it mayjuftly be fuppofed that the chalybeate, and aerial acid, which are loft on exportation of the waters, muft eflentially contribute to the invigoration of the habit, and the improve- ment of all their other virtues. And thofe who have experienced the difference may be fafely appealed to for the juftice of the fuppofition. Of this a proof was mentioned to me^ a day or two before my return to Bath, in a clergyman who had been accuftomed to drink the Waters, for feveral fea- fons, at his lodgings j but this year went regularly to the well, and acknowleged that he found them not only more pleafant and more enlivening, but alfo more efficacious in all refpefls than he had ever experienced before. I fhall now conclude with a few plain diredlons to be obferved during the courfe of drinking thcfe waters. In the firft place, I would recommend the repairing to the well early in die morning j as the waters are likely to be more ftrongly impregnated with all their ingredients at that time, than when the day is more advanced. Secondly, The drinker ought to begin with a quar- ter, or half a pint of the water, according to the age or ftrength