A letter addressed to the gentlemen of the medical profession on the nature and properties of the aluminous chalybeate water, at Sand Rocks, in the parish of Chale, in the Isle of Wight : the diseases in which it has been advantageously employed, and the administering it both internally and externally.

  • Waterworth, T.L.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A letter addressed to the gentlemen of the medical profession on the nature and properties of the aluminous chalybeate water, at Sand Rocks, in the parish of Chale, in the Isle of Wight : the diseases in which it has been advantageously employed, and the administering it both internally and externally. 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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    ral adopted by others, has been in the first place t» evacuate the patient’s bowels, by a dose of rhu- barb and magnesia, epsom salts, or other mild aperient, in order to remove any vitiated bile, or other offending matter, which may have accumu- lated in the intestinal canal, and then to begin the following morning after breakfast, with half an onuce of the water, diluted with two ounces of pure rain water, and this to be repeated twice a day at proper intervals. In a few days if it does not disagree with the stomach, this quantity may be gradually increased to two ounces of the water diluted as be- fore three times a day. After this the dilution may be diminished, until it can be taken in its pure state, and the dose of the water be increased by degrees, till it ultimately amounts to four ounces, four times a day, making in the whole, one pint in the twenty-four hours, which is the most that ever has been found necessary to prescribe in one day, even in the most obstinate cases of inter- mitting fevers brought from Walcheren.* Sometimes in irritable stomachs, the water may produce nausea, and sometimes, though rarely may excite vomiting; these unpleasant effects I. r - ♦ In delicate female habits, or with children, this dose may be found far too great, and should seldom, if ever exceed fioin four to six ounces iu the course of one day.