A collection of treatises relating to the city and waters of Bath. Containing, I. A Discourse of the Bath, and the Hot Waters there. Also some Enquiries into the Nature of the Water of St. Vincent's Rock near Bristol; and that of Castle-Cary. II. A Century of Observations; containing farther Discoveries of the Nature of the Hot-Waters at Bath. With the Contents, Property and Distinction of each Bath in Particular. III. The Lives and Characters of the Physicians of Bath, from the Year 1598, to the Year 1676. IV. An Apology for the Bath; being an Answer to a late Enquiry into the Right Use and Abuses of the Baths of England, &c. With some Reflexions on Fresh Cold Bathing, Bathing in Sea Water, and Dipping in Baptism. V. The Register of Bath; or, Two Hundred Observations. Containing an Account of Cures performed, and Benefits received, by the Use of the Famous Hot Waters of Bath: As they, for the most Part, came under the Author's Twenty-Seven Years Experience and Observation. All written

People / Organizations

• Thomas Guidott (Author)

Imprint

London: printed for J. Leake, bookseller at the Bath, M.DCC.XXV. [1725]

Publication year

1725-1725

ESTC No.

T131274

Grub Street ID

180293

Description

[28],430p.,plates ; 8⁰

Note

With six separate titlepages dated, 1724-25.

Each treatise is of the second edition except, 'The lives and characters of the physicians of Bath' and 'Thermæ redivivæ'.

The pagination and register are continuous throughout.