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A new and accurate system of natural history ... / By R. Brookes.

  • Richard Brookes
Date:
1763
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new and accurate system of natural history ... / By R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ing are good for gleets, the fluor albus, the can- It is alfo ufed fuccefsfully in all forts of bleedings, as well as hectick fevers and inward ulcers, with a milk diet. It alfo cures the diabetes, and the. bilious cholick. : Weftwood is another village in this county, near Tanderfley, where there is a fpring, which feems to be a folution of the pyrites, that generally the falt feparated from the earthy part of the fedi- ment will fhoot into beautiful criftals of vitriol, without any other fait. The water will cure ftubborn ulcers; and particularly healed one ina Maid Servant that was very frightful + it was. cured in three months. . fulphurious fmell, with a flavour refembling that of boiled eggs, and the colour in a tin veilel is. blue. At the fountain head a fhilling put into this water, becomes of a gold colour in two or three minutes; and from various experiments it appears to be impregnated with fulphur and. the fkin, by internal ufe,. this Bifhoprick, commodioufly feated on the fea- fhore, and is 15 miles fouth-weft of Durham it rifes it difcovers a little ftee] and fulphur, which white fediment with Salt of Tartar; becomes