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IX. An Account of a BOOK. 
The Natural Hijiory of the €halybeat and Fur- 
ging Waters of England, with their particular 
EJfays and ZJfes^ Sec with Obferz^ations on 
the Bath Waters /«Somerfetfliire. By Benj. 
Allen, Med. Bac, Printed for S. Smith ^nd 
B. Walford, at the ?rinccs kvms in St. PdiuVs 
Chn/ch-yard. i6p^» 
THIS Treatife confifls of an Account of the Ori- 
ginal and Principles of the Chalybeat and Pur- 
ging Waters of £»^/W,the Eflays of the Particular Wa- 
ters, and a Regifter of the Virtues and Properties of 
them. This the Author Recommends as a Work never 
yet done from the Neceffity of knowing the Qualities 
and Properties, of any Subje<5l-, and nicely fitting the 
Cafes they are proper in, butefpecially of this Subjed: 
of Co general Ufe and extraordinary Virtue ; and ur- 
geth the Difcovery of fo great variety in the Waters and 
their Salts, as amount to eflential Differences among 
thofe reputed of the fame fpecies, and which are ufed 
promifcuoufly, this he proves to anfwer Obfervation ; 
and to thenegleft of which Proprieties, he proves the 
want of Succefs to be much owing, as well as to the 
ignorance of their proper Place, and full eicimiof their 
Virtues. In the Chaly beats he difcovers chiefly Four 
forts 1 
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