A practical dissertation on the medicinal effects of the Bath waters / by William Falconer.

  • Falconer, William, 1744-1824.
Date:
1790
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Credit: A practical dissertation on the medicinal effects of the Bath waters / by William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    talned in feveral mineral waters of flight effi- cacy or activity in much larger quantity than in thofe of this place. Chemical analyfis therefore, as far as it has been hitherto profecuted, feems to give us a very imperfe(5l view of the methods by which thefe effects have been produced j and this circumftance has induced feveral perfons, to deny the truth of the fa6ls altogether, or to reprefent them as highly exaggerated, and that fuch advantages (if any) as might be in truth received, were owing to collateral cir- cumftances of uncertain and indeterminate efficacy, as change of air, diet, manner of life, \ and the like. That the regularity of regimen ufnally pra6lifed here, compared with that generally followed in the polite circles of London, may on many occafions contribute to health, is b highly