The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases / by James Tunstall.

  • Tunstall, James, -1880.
Date:
1868
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Credit: The Bath waters : their uses and effects in the cure and relief of various chronic diseases / by James Tunstall. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    THE BATH WATERS. —♦— CHAPTER I. OF THE GENERAL PROPERTIES OF THE BATH WATERS. The peculiar virtues of the Bath Thermal Waters, in the treatment of numerous chronic disorders, have employed the pens of many distinguished Physicians, both local and metropolitan. Those mysterious hot springs which tempted the ancient Romans to make choice of the valley of the Avon for a sanatorium, and to confer upon them the designation of the Waters of the Sun/' still preserve their uninterrupted flow, the volume and temperature never alter, the various chemical analyses do not attempt to explain anything more than their solid and gaseous contents, the cause of their uninterrupted flow at a high temperature being still an object of scientific conjecture. B