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Dr. Tenney's Account of Several Medicinal Spinrjs 



may conclude, that the acidulous waters possess considerable 

 aperient or deobstruent powers, and may therefore, be use-, 

 ful in most kinds of obstructions. That they share the re- 

 frigerant and sedative properties of the acids, cannot be dis- 

 puted. By these they are well calculated to remove that 

 inflammatory diathesis, which usually accompanies so ma- 

 ny disorders, and embarrasses the physician in his pre- 

 scriptions. 



Among the rest, do they not promise to be serviceable in 

 removing that obstinate, though sometimes small, inflamma- 



tion of the lungs, which so often terminates in a phthisis 

 pulmonalis and death? I think their success in the pul- 

 monick case above related, some proof of it. 



The chalybeate water may, without doubt, be an excel- 

 lent remedy in all cases of simple relaxation, or where that 

 is the primary disorder; and is always at hand to brace up, 

 and invigorate those patients, who are debiHtated by the use. 

 of the acidulous. 



These are a iQy^ of the obvious medicinal virtues 



of these 



curious* S2^r 



But, perhaps. 



but a series of 



• . • 



curate observations by ingenious practitioners, can 



deter- 



mine all their properties and 



. I am, &c. 



Dr. Fisher. 



SAMUEL TENNEY. 



p. s. 



Five months after writing the above, I 



saw 



officer whose case is there related, 

 got borne witb difficulty, and for 

 that he despaired of recoverino- 



constitution, naturally vio 

 his strength was . restored 



the 



He informed me, that he 

 me time declined so fast, 

 At length, however, 



bis 



ous, prevailed over his disorde 

 for several months he had bc( 



entirely 



