An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet.

  • Nisbet, William, 1759-1822.
Date:
1795
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Credit: An enquiry into the history, nature, causes, and different modes of treatment hitherto pursued, in the cure of scrophula and cancer / By William Nisbet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fyftem. This opinion, although highly refpedt- able, I am afraid, is purely hypothetical, and the benefit derived from their ufe, is rather to be a- fcribed to the period of the feafon at which they are ufually drank ; and alfo the length of time during which they are continued; for, in the courfe of it, an alleviation of the difeafe, at leaft of its external forms, fpontaneoufly occurs by the chan- ges of the conftitution itfelf, without the aid of any medicine whatever. Where mineral waters are employed, it may be proper to add, that, in recent cafes, the Saline and Chalybeate have been preferred; and in thofe of long Handing, the Sulphureous*. * The rules for drinking the different Mineral Waters are beft learned at the Fountain-head. It may be ufeful, however, to enumerate the principal places, in Britain, re> forted to for the cure of this difeafe. Of the Saline Waters, the principal are Scarborough in Yorkfhire, Epfom in Surry, Cheltenham in Glouceflerfhire, Dog and Duck in the neighbourhood of London. Of the Chalybeate, the chief are Tunbridge in Kent, Malton Spa in Yorkfhire, New Tunbridge near Iflington, Malvern in Worcefterfhire. Of the Sulphureous, Harrowgate in Yorkfhire, Moffat in Annandale, Pitcaithly in Perthfhire, St Bernards in the vicinity of Edinburgh. The Calcareous Minerals fall to be noticed under the- cure of Confumption. T» I