A new, plain and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters.

  • Graham, James, 1745-1794.
Date:
1789
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new, plain and rational treatise on the true nature and uses of the Bath waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    ( 3* ) artificial mixtures made by men—or even to the more compound productions of nature. O venerable, ever-young —ever-operating Nature, when I confider thy great balls, agents, or ittftruments, the elements,—and thy diligence, art, and filence, in working,—I am fo filled with aflonilh- ment, love, and adoration towards thy great eternal Author and Supporter, that I know not what to fay. The four ele- ments, however, which we call fimple, nor indeed any cre- ated being or thing, is not, flriCHy fpeaking, fimple, pure, or abfolutely perfeft. No. God ! alone, is the fimple, pure, and abfolutely perfeft Ens, Eflence, or Being:—Celeftial, intelleCfual beings, and light or the folar fire, as creatures, feera to be next to Deity f for their tenuity, purity, per- manency, iifefulnefs, ftation, fplendor, glory 1 Next to light or fire I contemplate the air, as at once the chaotic womb, and the common carrier of the feminal principles of all things, which are driven or float about in it, as it were panting or eagerly ftruggling to be depofited in each its proper ne& or womb, there to repofe, to germinate, and to be brought forth, info a more vifible and more aftive ftate of exigence, and fo to fulfil its original dellination. Then, below, appear the cold waters, themfelves living, and giving life and nou- rifhment, to the myriads of myriads of organized bodies,— animal, vegetable, mineral, and mixed, which inhabit them, and into which they enter. Lowell and Jaftly, I behold the earth, wide extending her fweet lap, to receive and to treafure up the rich influences of the Heavens,—the offerings and gifts of all her filler elements,—-and the benediClion of her parent—God 1 The earth is a generous daughter,—a raoft munificent mother,-—and ever laithful to her hufband the fun. She hoards not as the human mifer,—(he waftes not like the wayward wanton;—but to thofe who challcly foli-