An essay on medicinal efficacy and employment of the Bath waters, illustrated by remarks of the physiology and pathology of the animal frame, with reference to the treatment of gout, rheumatism, palsy and eruptive diseases / by Edward Barlow.

  • Barlow, Edward.
Date:
1822
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Credit: An essay on medicinal efficacy and employment of the Bath waters, illustrated by remarks of the physiology and pathology of the animal frame, with reference to the treatment of gout, rheumatism, palsy and eruptive diseases / by Edward Barlow. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    AN ESSAY, &c. PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. t A Treatise on Mineral Waters by a physician practising at their source, is very generally regarded either as an attempt on the part of the individual to write himself into notice, or, at best, as an endeavour to entice visitors by exag- gerated representations of medicinal efficacy; a species of delusion which may well rank with the basest arts of open quackery. While I admit that such treatises have not unfrequently originated in both motives, I am equally per- suaded that the apprehension of unworthy impu- tation has oftentimes been the means of prevent- ing men of liberal minds and high attainments from giving to the public much useful informa- tion. This backwardness to support the cause of truth and sound observation, however amiable the feeling in which it originates, seems to me to call for censure, rather than approval, as B