A Practical Dissertation on Bath-Waters; Treating of the Antiquity of Bathing. of the City of Bath, Design'd for the Use of the Nobility, Gentry, &C. Who Resort to the Bath. by William Oliver (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1716. Excerpt: ... Of the Antiquity of Bathing.--CHAP. II. Of the Original of Springs, -r--7 CHAP. III. Of the Ingredients in the Bath-Waters. 13 C H A P. IV. 0/ fe Cause of the Heat of the BathWaters.: 19 C H A P. V. Of drinking Rath-Waters. 34 C H A P. VI. Of Bathing.--69 CHAP. THE INTRODUCTION..-'. T.'l, r -J'/' l'.'. HAT the antient Poets feigned of their Neciar, or Drink of their Gods, may be truly said of our Bath-lVaters; That they are not only of a delicious Taste, but also of admirable Use for the Preservation of Health: Like the Water of Use in the Revelation, clear as Crystal, designed by Heaven for the Healing of Nattons.. It has always been reckon'd as a BUfstng to any People, that their Country abounded with Fountains, Springs and.Rivers. These were had in great respect: among the antient Egyptians; and a Pitcher fill'd with 'B Water, "Water, and coverM over, was their JHierogljpbick for Health and long Lifi. The learned Pagans, as well Greeks as Romans, invoked their Fountains and Rivers as their Gods, or at least they thought they had their constant abode. there: --Nunc ad aqua lene cap ut sacra. Hor. And' we ave told in History, that tire Fathers of the old British Church, the Druids, instituted a Worship something' like this here in our own Country; presuming, as, I suppose, that Springs, and Fountains, Rills and Rivulets, were the true Naides or Nymphs, the legitimate Daughters of their great; God, thtQmn: . .. .' vrr, bt io: i.rj--v, .";.., . C-V. Vi '4o Koij--I-----lE free at ur OceaHumqut PitteimB.tram AJjmfhas qm mnrHii;/.'; t..: '.;YirgiLu: .Y, .., . _'f - i.j -viVA r. Nowthats which gave: Occasion for the eftablilbirig. this Deity, . was a: very antient Opinion among Philosophers, that Water was the Ptnserm, or Parent Parent of all Things, ...