OBSERV. IV.
William Warner, Esq from Bandon-Bridge, in the Kingdom of Ireland, came hither in
Bath memoirs: or, observations in three and forty years practice, at the Bath what cures have been there wrought, (both by bathing and drinking these waters by God's blessing, on the directions of Robert Peirce, Dr. in physick, and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, a constant inhabitant in Bath, from the year 1653. to this present year 1697.
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- Bath memoirs: or, observations in three and forty years practice, at the Bath what cures have been there wrought, (both by bathing and drinking these waters by God's blessing, on the directions of Robert Peirce, Dr. in physick, and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, a constant inhabitant in Bath, from the year 1653. to this present year 1697.
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- Pierce, Robert, 1622-1710.
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- Bristol :: printed for H. Hammond, book seller at Bath, and the Devizes; and are to be sold by most booksellers in London, and the countrey,
- 1697.
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- Medicine -- Early works to 1800.
- Mineral waters -- England -- Bath -- Early works to 1800.
- Mineral waters -- Therapeutic use -- England -- Bath -- Early works to 1800.
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"Bath memoirs: or, observations in three and forty years practice, at the Bath what cures have been there wrought, (both by bathing and drinking these waters by God's blessing, on the directions of Robert Peirce, Dr. in physick, and Fellow of the College of Physicians in London, a constant inhabitant in Bath, from the year 1653. to this present year 1697." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54826.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024.
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May, 82. to take Advice, and use the Bath, ••••r several Distempers, but chiefly for a very ••••eat Difficulty of hearing, which was (for ••ome Years before) settled upon him, and ••ad, of late, greatly increased; insomuch ••••at he could hardly hear at all.
He first used Means proper for the other ••ymptoms he complain'd of; and at length ••uck to the Pump, both in, and out of the Bath; ••y which he manifestly recover'd, and con∣••nued to hear much better, till after a Re∣••••rn a while into his own Country; and ••assing there one Winter or two, the Deaf∣••ess return'd, as he afterwards told me in ••89. when the Dispersion from Ireland was so ••reat, that he, with many others, upon ••nall warning, were forced to fly into Eng∣••and for Refuge; and so ourning with a Gen∣tleman, near this City, all the time of his Banishment, was so kind, as sometimes to ••isit me.