A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett. With an appendix by John Jaques.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1804
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Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett. With an appendix by John Jaques. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ous Dr. Smollett, and the eccentric author of John Buncle. The common sweating bed, tainted with the effluvia of hundreds, is not now to be found even in the lowest bathing-houses at Harrogate. The method of conducting the patient on coming out ofthe bath, depends on the nature of the disease, and whether it be necessary to encourage a free perspiration. If that be the object, let the patient go immediately to his bed, which is previously to:.be warmed; he should take care to have by him a little white wine whey, of which' he may take a little now and then, as long as he wishes the sweating to continue. If profuse perspiration be: not the object, (which it will seldom be,) the patient may eat a light supper j for instance,: a little mutton broth; a poached egg ; or a little negus with toasted bread: he must allow himself to cool gradually, and then go to bed : even in this ease,i'the perspiration will generally continue in some degree during the night,/which, in ma- ny cutaneous complaints, is a desirable object. The patient ought to take care, if he find the perspiration free in the morning, to cool him- self very gradually before he rises. A a SECT.