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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    feverish excitement; and a steady course of the waters will speedily cure the vicious pro- pensity ; in some instances, by producing a smart attack of gout, heretofore latent in the system and, in others, by supplying energy to the injured organs, which enables them to resist and subdue the morbid propensity by the restoration of their healthy functions. I have had many instances under my notice in which these results have occurred: in this condition the healthy stimulus afforded by the waters is so grateful, that the patient, at last, prefers it to that which, a few weeks before, he thought essential to his very existence. I have never seen any ill result, in those ac- customed to live well, who have adopted the temperance system during their treatment by the Bath waters; on the contrary, the very best results have marked all cases in which this plan has been adopted.