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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    the water fhould be very gradual, and prudently regulated*, it is not good for people, plethoric, fat, difpos’d to inflammation or fpafmodic affec¬ tion rand generally, where it heats much, it mufl cither be omitted, or taken with proper precauti¬ ons. To fome, a vomit, bleeding, or purging may be necelfary, before en'tering on a courfe of this water ; weak and delicate ftomachs may require it diluted, or warm, or with the addidoa of a little aromatic, or ftomach tindure *, and in fome, particularly the confumptive and gouty, it will be proper to drink it with milk. Bark infufed in it will in fome cafes be of fefvice. The body fhould in general be kept moderately open during its ufe. The METHOD OF USING TEIE WATER The befl: time for drinking this water is when the flomach is empty, in a morning, or an hour or two before dinner. It is proper to begin with half a pint, or a pint, and gradually to in- creafe the dofe, fo as to rake in fome cafes four or five pints a day, or even to ufe it for common drink at meals. The ufe of it fnould be con¬ tinued for a pretty long time to reap the benefit of it, and where the quantity drank has been gradually increafed, as foon as the end propofed is obtained, it fliou’d be gradually decreafed, though not perhaps entirely left off. The fum- mer