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2. He afcribes much virtue to a fort of earthy fatnefs 
contain’d in the Water. (At this I much wonder, for 
he feems only to defcribe a Clay or fort of' Fullers 
Earth, that holds very lit Medical Virtue.) 
He fuppofes alfo a Sulphur and Nitre to be conceal’d 
in the Water, (but r does- not appear in his Examen Chj/~ 
micum ) by which Ulcers are heal’d, Coagulations are 
diffolved, relax’d Nerves are ftrengthened. Scabs and Le- 
prous Affections cured, &c. 
The following Chapters give a more particular account 
of the feveral Diftempers tor which thefe Bathings are 
ufed ; as alfo Cautions in what Cafes to forbear the ufe 
of Bathing. 
The warmth of thefe Waters feems not to exceed ,the 
tepid Heat of Brijlol Well. 
It feems ftrange that they have not Courage enough to 
try the virtue of thefe Waters internally 5.. efpecially fince 
the Contents of thefe Waters are very few, if -any, that 
are grofs or fixt : The Tafte is fcarce differing from pure 
Limpid Water y and what is more ftrange, in his Expe- 
riment with the Solution of Silver, he fays, they difco- 
ver’d no precipitation or perturbation of the Waters, 
whereas we know fcarce any Water (except Rain Wa- 
ter) that does not fuffer a Change by this Solution, whet*- 
mixt with it. 
L 0 NDO N : Printed for Sam. Smith and Benj. WaL 
ford. Printers to the Royal Society, at the Prince’s Arms 
in St Paul’s Chareh-jard. 
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