A new, plain and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Date:
1789
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Credit: A new, plain and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    hurtful and deadly to the human, or to any other animal body, upon which they afted: but if they be'permitted to mingle and to meliorate with their natively adjacent earth, and the niofl volatile and noxious fulphureous vapours to fly off in the wide and totally unobftruHed open air, and the perfon, at the time he-is fitting or walking about in that warm medicinal mud or water, freely breathing that frefh cold open air,—and now and then drinking a cup of that mineral water very moderately warm, or of the ffill more falutary fimple water of the Heavens,—of the adjacent river, or of other fprings,—then the warm mineral water of Bath is a molt fafe, moft pleafant, and moil certain remedy for feveral of the fouleff, moft painful, and moft dangerous difeafes that our human bodies, are obnoxious to, and af- flifted with, efpecially for feurfy, fcabby, leprous, and other cutaneous diforders, which it does chiefly by-killing the va- rious fpecies of ammalculcz which are the caufe of thefe dif- eafes;—but if the inward or outward application of thishot fulphureons water be carried too far, it will with equal cer- tainly kill the great animal alfo, namely, the patient, be he even the ftrongeft man. /. , , . i r * *; ' % * V ; * r- t . But, on the other hand, when foolifh men build honfes, and even ftreets, over the fpring-heads, and furround them with high walls and houfes, and encircle or envelope them .withavaftmafs of flagnant city atmofphcre, loaded with the moft ^deadly exhalations and corruptious—animal, vegetable, mineral, and mixed;—when they dig, excavate, and fweep away, all the natural earth they can from thefe fprings, and by a diabolical man-midwifery, untimely tear the crude and naked water, as an abortion from nature's ever-teeming womb: and when foolifh, when cruel, when mercenary men