Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston].

  • Houlston, Thomas, 1745-1787
Date:
1773
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Credit: Essay on the Liverpool spa' water / [Thomas Houlston]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    hence are ufeful in that variety of complaints which arife from indigeflion, acidities, foul- nefles, See ; to perfons in whom the circulation is {low and languid, and where there is laxity of the folids, cebility of the flomach, or acri¬ mony in the f ift pailages. Hence, alfo, they -are recommended in obftrudlions of the vifeera, or of the glands, in cold defluxions, conftipa- tion, to deftroy worms, and to cure intermittents; in lupprefiion of the menflrual and h^emorrhoi- dal difeharges, in melancholic, hypochondriac » and hyftcric cafes, in cachexy, dropfy, feur- vy, fcrophula, gout, (lone, palfy and nervous affedions. In external complaints, as in foul ulcers, cutaneous eruptions, tetters, the itch, and in retrocefflon of cutaneous eruptions, they arc much extolled. 'After their ufe, if they have left the body in a relaxed flatc, it may be neceffary to have xecourfe to cold bathing and ftrengthening re¬ medies, fuch as bark, &c, in order to reftorc the tone of the fibres. UNFIT. They are improper in inflammatory and very irritable habits, in bilious, hcdic, and feverifh corrplaints, in ulcers, tubercles, or infarctions of tke lungs, in convulfivc coughs and violent aflhtna