An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas.

  • Lucas, Charles, 1713-1771.
Date:
1757
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Credit: An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    tries and abufes, phyfical, ©economical, mechani¬ cal , and medical, as well internal as external, of feveral salt springs, of sea water, and of the medicated waters of Epsom, and Cheltenham* of thePouHON, Sauveniere,Groisbeeck,Ge- R O N S T E R 5 P O U H 0 N PIA , B A R RIS A R T, W A T- K 0 Z * Tonne let, in and about Spa, of the Cquve, Be - versee, La Sige, Geromont, Rrue or Chev¬ ron, and others, in or about the principality of Stavelot, and Tunbridge in Kent. To which are added the topography, and the natural hif- tory of the place of each fpring ; together with the kinds of accommodations, which patients may have contiguous to each medicated water. Part III. Contains, i. The name, definition and diftindtions of baths in general. 2. The tono- graphy, natural and civil hiftory of the city of Aken, or Aix la Chapelle *, an account of the climate, and the foil and it’s productions •* the' hiffory and defcriptions of it’s baths and their sources ; the fenfible qualities,-analyiis, nature and properties, virtues, ufes and abufes, phyfical, oeconomical, mechanical and medicinal, of the waters, with the various manners and times of applying them, as well external as internal : with an explanation of the catifes of heat, and the va¬ rious means of impregnation of fu'ch baths, and a particular account of the production of ful- phur in the vapor of the baths, different front any, yet given. 5. The like topography, and • hiftory of the town of Bor set, of the cities ot Bath and Bristol, with an account and ex¬ planation of the fenfible qualities, analyfis, nature and properties, virtues, ufes and abufes, phyfical, oeconomical, mechanical, and medicinal, internal and external, of their feveral baths. All taken from actual experiments, remarks* | and cibfefvations, made at the feveral fources, and Jjg- reputed and proved in different feafoiis. By C. LUCAS, M. D« b 11