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The virtues of common water

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By John Smith
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A practical medical treatise compiles writings of several physicians and the author's long experience to argue that plain water and cold bathing promote digestion, cool the blood, and prevent or alleviate many disorders. It surveys claims that routine water drinking strengthens the stomach, cleanses the urinary passages, and lowers risks of gout, gravel, dropsy, palsies, and other maladies associated with fermented liquors. The text includes case anecdotes, recommendations for morning and after-meal draughts, bathing practices, and brief dietary rules for preserving health.

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Title: The virtues of common water

or, The advantages thereof, in preventing and curing many distempers : gathered from the writings of several eminent physicians, and also from more than forty years experience

Author: John Smith

Contributor: Ralph Thoresby

Release date: April 14, 2024 [eBook #73394]

Language: English

Original publication: Dundee: T. Covill and Son, 1799

Credits: Charlene Taylor, Thiers Halliwell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

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Transcriber’s notes:

Apart from the corrections listed below, the text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original.

universa → universal
Digeston → Digestion
liqours → liquors
hydochondriac → hypochondriac
childdren → children
loosenese → looseness
watet → water
appply → apply
rhey → they
absoltue → absolute
or → of
yest → yeast
distilation → distillation
mettalic → metallic
Leediensis → Leodiensis
sudirifics → sudorifics
primative → primitive
closs → close
it → is
decripedness → decrepidness

THE VIRTUES OF COMMON WATER:

OR,
THE ADVANTAGES THEREOF,
IN
PREVENTING AND CURING MANY DISTEMPERS.
GATHERED
From the writings of several eminent Physicians, and also from more than forty years experience.
By JOHN SMITH, C. M.
To which is added,
SOME RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH BY DIET.
That’s the best physic, which doth cure our ills
Without the charge of ’pothecaries bills.
THE TENTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS.
COMMUNICATED BY
Mr RALPH THORESBY, F. R. S. and Others.
DUNDEE,
PRINTED BY T. COLVILL AND SON,
FOR
G. MILLN, BOOKSELLER.
1799.