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by his Memoirs of Mineral Waters. This’Sediment being 
boil’d in common Water, made a ftrong Lixivium , with 
which Acids caus’d no fenfible Fermentation ^ but Syrup 
•f Violets turn’d it Green. This Lixivium being evapo- 
rated, yielded a fat Sulphurous Salt, that would not coa- 
gulate into Cryftals. I can get but three or four Grains of 
it out of ten Grains of Sediment ; but from the Colour 
and Tafte of the Lixivium, I have reafon to fufpeflt, that 
there is a larger proportion of Saline Particles, which, as 
I conceive, being Volatile, evaporate away with the Wa- 
ter. Thefe are fome of the moft material Experiments I 
have made upon thefe Waters. 
As for their Medicinal Virtues, I might fay a great 
deal, but hoping to enlarge upon it another time, 1 (hail 
only tell you, Sir, that from the many and truly wonder- 
ful Cures, I believe it to be one of the moft excellent 
Waters of this kind, as yet found out in England. The 
little Well is very ufeful in Difeafes of the Bread, as in 
Afthmds, Coughs, Rheums and Catarhs. ft hath cured 
feveral given over of Confumptions of the Lungs. Moft 
Diforders of the Stomach are cured by this Water. It 
feldom fails in the Cure of Rheumatick gouty Pains of 
the Limbs, or other Parts of the Body, in the Scurvy 
and Melancholy Diftempers, Jaundice, Vapours, all forts 
of Stoppages, Scabs, Itch, &c. But in Gravel, Cholick, 
and Greenficknefs, 'tis a true Specifick, as alfo in inward 
Ulcers, if not too far gone. A Potter of Bolton, who 
bad fpent his Subftance in Doftors, and was laft Spring 
difcharged out of St. Thomas’s Hofpital, as an Incurable 
Perfon, hath been cured of his Ulcer in ihe Bladder this 
Summer, with drinking of this Water for three Months 
together. 
In Agues it is beyond the Bark : I have feen fome Re- 
bellious ones, that could not be removed by the Bark, per- 
feftly cured by this Water, and fome Conftitutions quite 
worn out by the frequent Relapfes of this Diftemper, re- 
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