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eight days. He has since found, during several after visits to the spring, 

 that such a change of colour is a favourable symptom. But at thai 

 time business hurried him back too soon to the city ; it was hoped., 

 however, that magnesia, as yet an untried remedy, might be substituted 

 for the waters, with, at least, equal advantage. The experiment did 

 not answer the expectation ; it must, at the same time, be acknowledg- 

 ed, that the magnesia did not get an equally fair trial with other medi- 

 cines far less promising. 



Early in the ensuing summer he again visited Schooley's Mountain. 

 At the time of his arrival there he was extremely feeble, and three or 

 four weeks passed over before he experienced any great mitigation of 

 his principal complaint ; but he found his strength and general health 

 gradually to improve. In less than a month his urine began to be dis- 

 coloured, it soon after became almost black, the waters operated as a 

 powerful diuretic, and gradually his disorder gave way. The moment 

 his strength would permit, by way of ascertaining the progress of his 

 amendment, and from motives of pleasure as well as health, he began to 

 take exercise, particularly on foot, and by labouring in the garden. 

 All this he bore with a sensible and daily increased advantage. After a 

 stay of three months he was able to support fatigue of every kind with- 

 out inconvenience. He believed himself nearly, if not completely, 

 cured, and in fact continued well for a much longer interval than upon 

 any former occasion. 



The quantity which he drank of the water, was from fifteen to twenty 

 half pint tumblers a day. He had taken it at different seasons, and ex- 

 perienced similar effects from it, winter and summer ; especially when 

 he joined to its use exercise in the openair. But as wet and tempes- 

 tuous weather always brought on attacks of his disorder, it was only 

 when he had resided some weeks at the spring that he was ever proof 

 against violent changes in the atmosphere. He finds that the beneficial 



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