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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    drank the Water about a Month, a violent Diarrhoea came on, and lafted feveral Days, from which He found great Relief y recovering his Spirits, and in a great Meafure, the Ufe of his Limbs. As a Teltimony of the Benefit he had receiv'd, He built a Bath under the Spout ; the ancient one being in a very ruinous Condi¬ tion. I always advife my Patients to drink freely of the Water for fome Days or Weeks before they ufe them externally. The Empirical Method of Application, which has hitherto been fuccefsfully praffifed, is to wafh Sores, Tumors, &c. under the Spout, feveral Times in a Day ; covering the Parts afterwards with Cloths dipt in the fame Water, and moiften’d from Time to Time, as often as they grow dry.—Thofe who bathe alfo for cutaneous Foulneffes3 F 2 ufually