An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764.
Date:
1750
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of thefe two different Qualities. Where ■*v. they both jointly contribute to the Cure, they are little lefs than fpecifick: Where they clafh, they are not fo much to be de¬ pended on. It is therefore incumbent upon the Phyfician to confider well the Circum- ftances of every particular Cafe, and where he finds any Contra-indications, to qualify, if pollible, the Inconvenience, and to make them ferviceable to the Point he aims at. But, left I fhould be thought not to pay a proper Deference to what others have faid, I fhall proceed to give an Account of fuch Authors as have taken notice of this Wa¬ ter fince the Difcovery of its Virtues in a 'Diabetes. And firft, I am fomething furpriz'd to find fo little Notice taken of this Spring by the Writers of Natural Hiftory. For, except that Sir Robert Atkyns, in his An¬ cient and cPrefent State of Glocefterfhire, printed 1712, juft fays of it, that, “ it is a u Remedy famous for divers Difeafes, efpe- “ dally the Diabetes/' I know not of any that have mentioned it. In the late Edi¬ tion of Camden s Britannia, though trans¬ lated and improved by fo able a Hand, we do not find a Word of any fuch thing, though both