Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which are now added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan.

  • Buchan William, 1729-1805.
Date:
1803
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Credit: Domestic medicine : or, a treatise on the prevention and cure of diseases by regimen and simple medicines. With an appendix, containing a dispensatory for the use of private practitioners. ... To which are now added, some important observations concerning sea-bathing, and the use of the mineral waters; with many other additions / by William Buchan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    59^ man Spa, or flill more in thofe of Pyrmont, \t need not be preferved-with fo much caution ; but a fufficient qiiamity of boiling water may be added to that which is taken from the fpring, to bring the whole to a moderate tem- perature. ^ ^^77,7 There are many fprihgs oi fimple chalybeate water in difTerent parts of Great Britain, and even in the neigh- bourhood of London, which probably are little inferior in medicinal virtue or intrinfic ftr.ength to Tunbridge Wells, thouc^h thefe have acquired a higher reputation. _ Pure air, temperate living, regular and early hours, adive di- verfions, agreeable compiany, and a total exemption from ail concern, except a rational defire to promote health, are the only circiimllances that caufe any real difference in the ufe of waters fo fimilar in quality. This difference^ however, is confiderable i and the want of fome of thole co-operating circumftances will always^ prevent the fprings of Iffingthn or HampBead from being let in com- petition with thofe of Tunbrkige, for the cercinty of their effeas. The remarks, which I have made on the proper method of drinking, the latter, as well as on the diforders and particular habits of body to which they are adapted, are equally applicable to all waters of the fanie defeription in our ifland. But there are a fevv chaly: beatts on the continent, particularly thofe of the German Spa and of Pyrmont, which, being more acTye and powerful in their operation, require to be uled with ereate'r caution and delicacy. . ^ On drinking a elafs ofthe Spa water, the tafte imme- diaKly perceives f ftrong infufion of iron blended with an agVehble acidity. The latter is dance of fixed air, which amounts to near half the bulk of the water, and holds in Iblution more as much iron as we find in the like quantity of Tunbridge water The efftfls are not iefs perceptible than the tafte. A full’draught of the Spa water, tipecially m hot weather, or upon an^empty llomach, will produce a Th#* and'a fort of intoxication, which fometimcs 'ctfinuel “rAV an hour, and is very like at.fcs from fpirituous liquors, the. fame debility after going off. A patient,