Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters.

  • John Wall
Date:
[1757]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fails to effect a Cure foon ; which, without fuch Afiiftance, might be uncertain or at beft very tedious. Margaret Webb was receiv’d on Tryal Auguft the 31ft 1755 as an In Patient of the Worcefter Infir¬ mary, for a finuous Ulcer in the Groin, which penetrated into the Abdomen ; befide which She had another alfo on the outfide of the Thigh, which the Probe could not fathom. She continued in the Houfe till September the 2 5 th; but the Air of the Place, where many fick Per- fons lie in one Ward, being too dole for her; and her Cafe being thought defperate ; She was made an Out Patient : at which Time, She was very much reduced, and grown hedtical by the Difcharge ; which was exceffively fetid ; and fo great in Quantity, as to run through all the Dreffinss quite down on the G Floor