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to make known, as far as lies in me, the excellent 
Virtues of thefe Waters, of which I have been an 
Eye -witnefs for feveral Years in many extraordinary 
Cures. 
Experience has proved them of admirable Efficacy 
in Scorbutick and Scrophulous Cafes : wherein they 
have done fuch Wonders, that a ffiort Account which 
was publiffied of their Cures in that Kind, about five 
Years ago, was looked upon by fome, rather as a ro* 
mantick Tale, than a true Narrative of real Fads. 
They are of an attenuating, aftringent and drying 
Nature: And by thefe Qualities, I imagine, they per* 
form their Cures. The firft is the known Property 
of all Water, to dilute the Blood, and thin the 
Juices, and thereby to fit them to pafs the fine 
Strainers, and be carried out of the Body by their 
proper Drains. In the Second confifts the great Ex- 
cellence of HoIt^Watefy which, by its notable A* 
ftringency, braces the Solids, ftimulates the Fibres, 
and quickens their contradile Power, and thereby 
enables them to (hake off, protrude and fqueeze 
out fuch Feculencies, as may adhere to, clog and 
fluff them up. And this Quality, it is probable, 
they derive from the Allora and Iron that are fup- • 
pofed to impregnate them. The Ingredients, which 
give them their drying, abforbing and healing Quali* 
ty, are the Sulphur and Ochre, by which they im* 
bibe the peccant Humours, and (heath the (harp Salts, 
that lance and tear the finer Glands, and caufe 
Blotches, and Ulcerations. As they attenuate and 
aftringe, they are a noble Diuretick, removing Ob,- 
flruflions from the Kidneys, • and caufing the Renal 
Glands to make their due Secretions, and at the fame 
Time 
