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III. ExtraSl of a Letter of J, Wall, M. D. 
to the Rev. Dr. Lyttelton, Dean of Exe- 
ter, and F. R. S. concerning the good EffeBs 
of Malverne Waters in Worcefterfhire. 
SIR, Worcefter, Dec. 22. 1756. 
Read Jan. 20, H E Mai verne Water much de- 
17 57 " ferves encouragement, feveral very- 
extraordinary cures having been done by it lately. I 
propofe to make a collection of the principal, and 
publish them, as an appendix to my little treatife. 
Amongft other remarkable inftances of their great 
effects are the following, which have happened this 
year. A poor woman, formerly a patient in our 
infirmary for a fiftulous ulcer in the hip, and another 
in the groin, which penetrated the abdomen, has 
received her cure there, tho’ fire was reduced to fo 
great a degree, as to be thought incurable, and fent 
into the country on a milk-diet, &c. as the laft 
refource. The difcharge from the fores was pro- 
digioufly great, and fo offenfive, that fire could 
hardly be borne in a room. The water took off the 
ill fmell almofl inftantly ; the difcharge foon leffened, 
and grew thick and well- conditioned; her heCtic fym- 
ptoms went off in proportion ; and, by continuing 
the ufe of the water for five or fix months, fhe is 
cured. 
A woman with a phagedenic ulcer in the cheek, 
throat, and nofe, from an ozaena in the hollow of 
the cheek-bone, received great relief this year, in 
five or fix weeks time ; the external ulcer, which 
had 
