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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London :: Printed by F. Leach for the author, and are to be sold by Randal Taylor ...,
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 June 4, 2024.

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About the year 1640, a Welsh Gentleman, Operator, concern∣ed in the silver Mines in Wales, was stricken with a poysonous steam, to the loss of use of all

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his Limbs, in the place where they wrought; and presently coming in a Coach to Bath, was advised by Doctor Bave, an old Fminent Physician, then practi∣sing on the place, to the use of the Kings Bath, where by the help of bathing, and the scum of the Bath applied to the parts affected, in the nature of a Pultice, in a months time he could stand and walk a little; and in three months time so well recover∣ed, that he could go without the help of a Staff, and rid a mettle Horse home well▪ He was cured in one Season of bathing. This from William Purle••••t an Old Servant of the Doctors, now living, and Green-keeper at Bath, who attended the Patient.

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