6s PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1757. 



from, the disease was overcomCj and the patient recovered his perfect health and 

 strength. 



///. On the Good Ejects of Malvern Waters in Worcestershire. By J. Wall, 



M.D. p. 23. 



Among other remarkable instances of the medicinal effects of the Malvern 

 water, Dr. W. relates the following : A poor woman, formerly a patient in the 

 Worcester Infirmary for a fistulous ulcer in the hip, and another in the groin, 

 which penetrated the abdomen, received her cure at Malvern, though she was 

 reduced to such a degree, as to be thought incurable, and sent into the country 

 on a milk-diet, &c. as the last resource. The discharge from the sores was pro- 

 digiously great, and so offensive, that she could hardly be borne in a room. The 

 water took off the ill smell almost instantly ; the discharge soon lessened, and 

 grew thick and well-conditioned ; her hectic symptoms went off in proportion ; 

 and by continuing the use of the water for 5 or 6 months, she was cured. 



A woman with a phagedenic ulcer in the cheek, throat, and nose, from an 

 ozaena in the hollow of the cheek-bone, received great relief in 5 or 6 weeks 

 time ; the external ulcer, which had almost destroyed the whole cheek, being 

 healed in that time, and the other parts much amended. Her affairs would not 

 permit her a longer continuance at the well ; but she continued the use of the 

 water at home, and found great relief from it there. Dr. W. hoped another 

 season would complete the cure. 



Mr. Parry, of Clent, had his skin cleared, and perfectly healed in 5 weeks ; 

 though when he came to the well, he was covered with an elephantiasis ; for 

 which he had tried most of the purging waters, and sea-water, under the direc- 

 tion of Dr. Russell, without effect. So bad was he, that he could not move a 

 limb but the skin cracked, and oozed out a filthy sanies ; and he left the mark 

 of his body every night in his bed. 



Dr. W. knew a lady who he had great reason to fear had an internal cancer, 

 who had received great advantage from the use of these waters, after other things 

 had been tried unsuccessfully. 



IF, Of the Carlsbad Mineral Waters in Bohemia. By the Rev. Jeremiah Miles, 



D.D., F.R.S. p. 25. 



Carlsbad is a small town on the confines of Bohemia, at the distance of 14 

 Grerman, or 28 French leagues west of Prague. It is remarkable for its warm 

 mineral springs, which are said to have been accidentally discovered, in the year 

 1370, by the Emperor Charles the 4th, as he was hunting: from whom they 



