A treatise on Cheltenham waters, and bilious diseases ... To which are prefixed observations on fluidity, mineral waters, and watering places / By Thomas Jameson.

  • Jameson, Thomas.
Date:
1803
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Credit: A treatise on Cheltenham waters, and bilious diseases ... To which are prefixed observations on fluidity, mineral waters, and watering places / By Thomas Jameson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Steel water is Contra-indicated in a great number of diseases, particularly in some of those which receive most benefit from the purging waters of the other wells. In Inflammatory Diseases, where the action of the sanguiferous system is in- creased, as in fevers, hectic states of the body, paroxysms of acute rheumatism, and gout, this water is not a safe remedy. In Visceral Obstructions, especially of the liver and spleen, it is a hazardous re- medy. It might restore the tone of the sto- mach, but it would increase the organic ob- struction, by its stimulus and astrmgency. In Determinations of Blood to the head or lungs, it should be prohibited; therefore, in vertigo, constitutional headachs, and tendency to apoplexy ; or in inflam- matory asthmas, coughs, and consumption, it would be dangerous to increase the circula- tion, or to generate blood by steel water. In Dropsies, it might act as a tonic, and