The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases. / By James Tunstall, M.D.

  • Tunstall, James, -1880.
Date:
1860
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Credit: The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases. / By James Tunstall, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    tity from a few grains to many ounces daily, in which the disease does not materially affect the general health of the patient, as Lepra, Psori- asis, Eczema, Impetigo, Pityriasis, Porrigo, Tinea Capitis, and their various subdivisions and com- plications. The next will comprehend Chlorosis, and other functional diseases of the uterine system, Anemia, and the loss of general health and strength produced by continued illness, mental anxiety, studious labour, or bodily fatigue; diseased conditions, having their origin in dim- inished circulating power, and which, for our present purpose, may be classed together under the head of General Debility. I now come to those which far outnumber all the others, viz., Gout, and Chronic Rheumatism. In the first of these the Bath waters have been used with most signal and almost universal success; we can, indeed, scarcely open the memoirs and biographies of celebrated persons of the last century, without finding constant references to their good effects. They deserve, indeed, to have accorded to them the reputation of a specific action upon this disease, as far as relief is concerned, and were constantly re- commended by the most celebrated practitioners of the Metropolis, from the reign of Queen Anne to that of George the Third. In Chronic Rheumatism they are equally efh-