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springs. On her way she stopped cat the garrison, and I saw 

 her. All the muscles of her thigh were useless; and her 

 knee consequently, destitute of any voluntary motion. Her 

 leg was drawn backwards, and fixed : her thigh was con- 

 siderably enlarged, and in places, very hard: the ulcers had 

 a foul and angry appearance; and at times she suffered con- 

 siderable pain. After she had used the waters a fortnight, 

 she returned, and I saw her again. The swelling and indu- 

 ration were removed ; her pains were much abated ; her 

 knee was more flexible; and her ulcers had assumed a fav- 

 ourable appearance. It is not supposable that in such a 

 case, any course of internal medicines could effect a cure : 

 but, I believe that so much could not have been done tow- 



ards it, in the same time, by the best medicines of the 



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shops, though ever so judiciously administered ; nor, perhaps, 



in a much longer. 



Many people in the vicinity, suppose the waters a cure 

 for intermitting fevers; and when properly used, I have no 

 doubt but that they may be. For this purpose, after using 

 the acidulous waters a few days, recourse must be had to the 

 tonick virtues of the chalybeate. But for want of proper 

 directions, I believe this has not been practised. The advant- 

 a^^es derived from them, therefore, were the same that are 

 produced by evacuations, and small doses of tartar emetick, 

 by which the fits may very often be broken, and the disor- 

 der sometimes removed. I have made trial of them in but 

 one case of this disorder ; and that was before I had discov- 

 ered the properties of the different springs. The patient 



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