41 o ESSAYS AND OBSERVATIONS 



even when they have been further advan- 

 ced ; in preventing mifcarriages ; and, in 

 reftoring health, when the conftitution 

 has been impaired by long illnefs : All 

 which will appear from the following hi- 

 flories, moft of which were wrote down 

 from the patients own mouths, and at- 

 tefled by the phyiician or furgeon who 

 attended them *• 



Before 



* There were given in to the Society, with this paper, 

 twenty two well atteftedhiftories of patients cured of the 

 above mentioned dileafes, by means of the Hartfell 

 £jpaw ; which it was thought proper to omit, fince they 

 would have fwelled this article to a bulk too great for 

 a work, of this kind. But, as the good eSe&s of this wa- 

 ter in confumptions of the lungs are foraewhat extraor. 

 dinary, and may, perhapsp be doubted of by thofe who 

 have imbibed early prejudices againft all chalybeates and 

 aftringents, in fuch cafes; it may not be amifs to give » 

 place, here, to the two following hiftories 



I. Mrs Glendinning, wife to Mr Robert Glendinning, 

 fchoolmafter in Moffat, aged 51, was, on the 20th of 

 December 1750, attacked with pains in her right fide ; 

 a conftant (harp pricking pain under the middle of the 

 breafl-bone ; a hard, tickling, dry cough; thirft, diffi- 

 culty of breathing, and frequent gripes in her guts : All 

 which fyraptoms increafed, till the firft of January 1751, 

 when ftie began to fpit, with difficulty, a little thick 



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