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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    EfFefls of the Bath waters inter- nally taken. Bath waters llimu- iant. On the Medicinal Effedls of The Bath water, when drank frefli from the fpring, and in the quantity of a pint (which is the ufual quantity taken in a day) in divided dofes, has in moft perfons the effedl of raifing and rather accelerating the pulfe, increafing the heat, and exciting the fecretions.* Hence they may, in medical expreffion, be juftly accounted flimula7it% This term is however of large extent, and in a medical view comprehends a * great variety of operations differing much from one another both in nature and degree. The ftimulating quality pofTeffcd by the Bath waters appears to be of a very diffufible kind. Their effedts arc felt at the fame time upon the nervous fylfem, upon that of the blood-veffels, and upon the alimentary canal. Hence, * The Bath waters not only promote urine and perfpi- ratlon, but are found to increafe the falivary difcharge. Hence they are found, in cafes where there is no tendency to fever, to quench thirft better than any other fluid. probably,