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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    fmooth. His Complaints have indeed appear’d again lince, but in a very mild Degree. He told Me himfelf, that even under this Relaple, He feels much more Eafe, than He has had for many Years before he ufed this Water. It feems reafonable to conclude, that as the Water had fo furprizing an EfFedt on fo fhort a Tryal, a longer Continuance might have wrought a perfedt Cure. -... a r ’ •?' T ~r ~ * *- f* ■ ■ f »*“'* ■* T »{» i i; Mr. John Ible, of the Parifh of Stockton in this County, had been afflidted with a dry furfuraceous Leprofy more than feven Years. This firft appear’d about the Knees and Elbows, but fpread by Degrees over the whole Body. Every Night, he left in his Bed two or three Hand¬ ful of dry Scales, as large as thofe of a Carp. By drinking conftantly of the Holy Well Water, and bath¬ ing in it three or four Times in a . D:|y