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MEDICAL PAPERS. 



\ Analyfis of the Chalybeate Waters ^/Bristol, 



2V?Pennfylvania; in two letters fro?n Dr.JoiiN DE Nor- 

 MANDiK, of Brijioh addreffed to i>, Thomas Bond, 

 one of the Vke Prefidents of the American Philofophical 

 Society J held at Philadelphia ^ and by him communicated 



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BrifoU inPemifylvania^ Sept. xc> 176S. 



T) E A R SIR, 



N feeing amongft the many ufeful purpofesof infti- 



comm 



tuting the American Philofophical Socictyj that 

 imicatins to the pubUc new methods of curing i 



:it of 

 and 

 preventing cUfeafes, is defervedly included; I take the li- 

 berty of requefliug you to prefent mymoft rcfpcdful com- 

 pliments to the worthy members of it, and beg their fa- 

 vourable acceptance of the inclofed Analyfis of the Briflol 

 mineral water, and of an account of the means whereby 

 a village, long unhealthy, has been rendered remarkably 



healthy. 



To the American Piiilosophicai. Society, held at 



Philadelphia^ ^c 



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HE great improvements the lafl and the prefent 

 age have made in the healing art, the encouragement 

 |vjven to the ftudy of phyfic by the eftablifliment of me- 

 dical fchools in North Americas and efpccially in your city, 

 where the feveral branches of medicine are regularly taught, 

 muft afford the moft fenfible pleafure to every humane 

 difpofition, and prove an encouragement to all who are 

 intercfted in the health of their fellow creatures, to exert 

 themfelves in purfuing every difcovery which may tend to 



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