Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters.

  • John Wall
Date:
[1757]
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Credit: Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    of mineral Spirit, and almoft all other Principles. Indeed were this the Cale, which for many Reafons I am convinced it is not, that Pu¬ rity alone would make the Spring of great Value. The learned Hoff¬ mann has wrote a Differtation ex- preiily to prove, that if any thing in Nature deferves the Name of an univerfal Medicine, it muff be. pure Water : And after having enume¬ rated the Ufes and Effedfs of it, both in preventing and curing Difeafes, he adds, ‘ that Fountains of pure 4 light Water, though they do not 4 contain any mineral Ingredients, ‘ may yet be of great Service in the 4 Cure of Chronical Diftempers ’. Of fome fuch Fountains he after¬ wards gives Inffances ; and com¬ mends them in Calculous, Arthritic, Scorbutic, Cachetic, Bilious and Pa¬ ralytic Cafes ; in inveterate Dijorders of the Head; as alfo where the ILe- mQrrhoidal t