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Dr. Tenney's Account of Several Medicinal Springs 



my own observation, that 



the chronick rheumati 



the 



waters are a very certain cure. 



Among these patients w^as one, whose case deserves a 



more 



X^articnlar description. He was a nian of about twenty 

 four years of age, of a slender habit, and delicate constitu- 

 tion. He had not been fit for duty much above half the 

 time, for the two years he had served in the regiment; and 



for five or six months, had been 



ubled 



with scrophulous 

 and pulmonick complaints, a pain in his breast, cough, and 

 sometimes a slight hgemoptysis. At this time he had a hec- 

 tiqjv fever; and I suspected that he had tubercles formed in 

 his lungs, which were about suppurating. 



I sent him to the 



springs in the month of April 



By 



drinking the acidulous water about a fortnicfht, his 



o 



toms were so far removed, that he has 

 health, and has done his duty in the corps 



symp- 

 yed tolerable 

 ■ since, except- 



mg that very lately he felt some symptoms of his old dis- 



soon removed by returning to the 



orders, which were 

 waters. 



I had afterw^ards two patients, whose livers were left 

 greatly tumefied, indurMed, and painful, by an obstinate 

 jaundice ; on which the common deobstruents had little 



or 



effect 



I sent them to the springs for relief: and 



week they returned perfectly cured 



A girl belonging to Albany 



the 



consequence of a fall on 



broke out 



above two years before, had seven or eight sores 



time became nice 



on the whole length of her left thidi, which 



By the adv 



o 



of Doctor Youn 



who Lad very faithfully attended her, she was carried 



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sinkings 



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