5 1 8 Buxton and Cheltenham. [Book VII. 



The Briftol waters are particularly recommended m 

 pulmonary complaints ; the fame, however, of Briftol 

 has probably been more owing to the mildnefs of the 

 air in that part of England, than to the virtues of its 

 waters* 



BUXTON. e This is a hot water, refembling that 

 of Eriftol. It raifes the thermometer to 81 or 82. 

 It has a fweet and pleafant tafte, It contains a little 

 calcareous earth, together with a fmall quantity of fea 

 fait, and an inconfiderable portion of a cathartic fait. 

 Iron has been difcovered in it, but in fo extremely 

 fmall a quantity as not to deferve notice : and even 

 that perhaps owing to accident. This water taken 

 inwardly is efteemed good in the diabetes ; in bloody 

 urine ; in the bilious cholic ; in lofs of appetite, and 

 coldnefs of the ftomachj in inward bleedings ; in 

 atrophy ; in contraction of the veffels and limbs, efpe- 

 cially from age ; in cramps arid convulfions ; in the 

 dry afthma without a fever j and alfo in barrennefs. 

 Inwardly and outwardly it is faid to be good in rheu- 

 matic and fcorbutic complaints; in the gout; in in- 

 flammation of the liver and kidnies, and in confump- 

 tions of the lungs ; alfo in old ftrains j in hard callous 

 tumours j in withered and contracted limbs j in the 

 itch, fcabs, nodes, chalky fwellings, ring-worms^ and 

 other fimilar complaints. Befides the hot water, there 

 is alfo a cold chalybeate water, with a rough iron tafte. 

 It refembles the Cawtborp water*.' 



' CHELTENHAM, in Gioucefterjhire y is one of the beft 

 and moft noted cathartic chalybeate waters in England, 

 though it is not fo much frequented as formerly. The 

 gallon contains eight drams of a cathartic fait, partly 

 vitriolated natron, partly vitriolated magnefia -, twenty- 



* Elliot on Min. Waters, p. 151, &c. 



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