XLIX.
Mr. Arthur Sherstone, of Brom∣ham in the County of Wilts, now at the Devizes, near 50 years of age, after a short Jour∣ney was taken with a Rheumatism, which after violent pains univer∣sal, seized on particular parts, viz.
The register of Bath, or, Two hundred observations containing an account of cures performed, and benefit received, by the vse of the famous hot waters of Bath, in the county of Somerset, as they, for the most part, came under the observation and knowledge of Thomas Guidott, physician there : being great part of this experience of the effects of the baths of Bath, for XXVII years last past.
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- The register of Bath, or, Two hundred observations containing an account of cures performed, and benefit received, by the vse of the famous hot waters of Bath, in the county of Somerset, as they, for the most part, came under the observation and knowledge of Thomas Guidott, physician there : being great part of this experience of the effects of the baths of Bath, for XXVII years last past.
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- Guidott, Thomas, fl. 1698.
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- 1694.
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"The register of Bath, or, Two hundred observations containing an account of cures performed, and benefit received, by the vse of the famous hot waters of Bath, in the county of Somerset, as they, for the most part, came under the observation and knowledge of Thomas Guidott, physician there : being great part of this experience of the effects of the baths of Bath, for XXVII years last past." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A42307.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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hand, knee, and foot, in the na∣ture of the Gout. He also lost the motion of his lower Limbs, so that he was carried by Thomas Broad then his Servant, from the Bed to the Fire-side. Bleeding once or twice at the arm, in larger quantity than usual, and taking Medicines inwardly, and using ap∣plications external in a due and regular manner, without the Bath, the inflamations and tu∣mours in the legs and feet (as in Hydropical persons) in great mea∣sure went off; the legs and feet regaining their proper motion. But the running pains continuing, and the humours remaining set∣tling on the Nerves, Muscles and Tendons of the right and left arm, so as to take away by turns, the use of both, I committed the Pati∣ent, very strong in his lower Limbs, to the moderate use of the tem∣perate
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Queens Bath in the Winter Season, by the use of which his Arms received motion as before, and the pains first ceased then dis∣charged: the Patient grew well 4 December 1685. He was well at Bath of that disease 7 September 1688.