ACIDULATED \VATMKS 



cumftanceofits being drunk in larger quantities! 

 now than formerly. 



Mineral waters may happen, however, to lofe 

 their virtues jn the courfe of* time. Many fprings 

 have, iridved, retained their lalutary virtues tor 

 *#es : but there are others whole medicinal 

 powers have generally declined. Even of Med- 

 vi the tafte and ellicacy have not been uniform- 

 ly the fame. Hkurne himfclf bears witnefs, that 

 he hud found its taile fometimes fwect, fomc- 

 times bitter; probably as the proportion of the 

 hepatic air varied : and that fo frequently, that 

 it could not be referred either to the changes of 

 the moon, or the feafons. I inyfelf obierved ic 

 to undergo a limilar change in the end of the 

 month of Augull. All who had been before at 

 the fpring found it to taile ftronger than lifual 

 then of iron. 



That the waters of Mcdvi arc endued with reJ 

 rnarkable healing powers, appears from numer- 

 ous inftances of perfons, who both in former 

 times, and in the prefent age, liave recovered 

 their health by drinking of them. Many upon 

 drinking it, immoderately have in a week or two 

 found their llomach oppreilcd, their head ren- 

 dered giddy, their knees infecbled, and have 

 felt it impoflible to refill llccp after dinner. 

 Our water contains lefs iron than that of Pyr- 

 inont ; but this very quality renders it the fit- 

 ter for llrengthening a weak ftomach, which is 



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