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it, and I think that to such persons it is seldom, if 

 ever, useful. 



The water is considered as salutary, in all cases of 

 debility ; in rheumatism of the chronic kind ; in 

 gout ; in bilious and febrile habits ; in an incipient 

 consumption, where ulcers or tubercles are not yet 

 formed in the lungs ; and in all complaints of the kid- 

 neys, bladder, and urinary passages. 



Many, however, who visit these Springs, receive 

 no benefit from them. In consumptive cases, where 

 the lungs are already affected with ulceration, they 

 are sure to aggravate the disease. The truth seems 

 to be, that they are a good deal stimulant, and very 

 powerfully tonic, and when the system cannot bear a 

 remedy of this kind, they are injurious. 



In sores of various kinds they are salutary, and 

 are said to be an effectual remedy against the bite of 

 a rattlesnake, when inflicted on beasts. 



On the whole, it is certain, that these waters have, 

 in a great number of cases, effected wonderful cures ; 

 that, in a considerable number, they have been of no 

 use; and that, in some, they have been injurious. 



The accommodations at the Sweet- Springs are 

 tolerable ; and, with a little further expence and care 

 of the proprietor, might be made very good. The 

 greater number of those who come here are obliged 

 to live in log huts, plastered with mud, and the floors 



