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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    z8 The Hijlory of “ dilation : Briftol allays Heat, and re- drains the too rapid Motion of the Blood. <e Bath invigorates the Phlegmatiek : Briftol attemperates the Cholerick Con- cc ditution. Bath Waters feem to be de- “ dicated to the Maladies of the Stomach, <c Guts and Nerves: Briftol to thofe of the cc Lungs, Kidneys, and Bladder. Again, u Bath Waters are at variance with a Milk * • *v * 4 Courfe, and Briftol never judicioufly C£ direded, but where that may be joined cc with Reafori and Succefs. Thus, from a iimple diuretick Water, calculated for fome few Diforders of the uri¬ nary Pafiages, are we now arrived at a fo- vereign Remedy, applicable to fome of the mod dubborn Difeafes of the Body. For, when once it was found to cure a BJia- betes, nothing afterwards was thought too hard for it s—it was to dop all Fluxes, and temper all Humours. And yet this is the firft Author who mentions its Virtues in internal Haemorrhages 5 which, one would imagine, might have been guefied at from the Beginning, from its cooling Nature only > efpecially, as its good Effeds in bloody Urine mud appear from the fre¬ quent. Ufe of it in the Stone and Gravel. But,