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have been found to increafe the heddic heats and 
tendon of the pulfe. 
Nov/, this obfervation feems not eafily reconcile- 
able to another of Dr. Horfeburgh, in the place 
above-mentioned, on the Hartfell fpaw (a much 
dronger and hardier chalybeate than either the Ger- 
man fpaw, or any of our ordinary ch^Iybeates), t v;z. 
that it hath actually been given, with notable fuccefs, 
from half a pint to a pint a day, in confumptions of 
the lungs, far advanced, even attended with hedtic 
heats and night fweats. 
So memorable a fact, in the cure of a deplorable 
difeafe, deferves attention ; and the Scotch phydeians 
in that neighbourhood are called upon to corroborate 
it by further obfervations ; as how long thofe cures 
flood, and how far they may have been condrmed by 
the like fuccefs in dmilar cafes ; whether ufed with or 
without milk ; and laftly, whether, as an acid audere 
medicine, they may cool, corredl, and give a better 
confidence, in a colliquative date of the blood ; feems 
well to deferve further inquiry, and that the relult 
fhould be communicated for the public utility. 
There had indeed formerly obtained a general 
prejudice againd the ufe of the ordinary chalybeates 
in difeafes of the lungs ; but, at length, experience 
hath convinced us, not only of their fafety, but ufe- 
fulnefs, and good effects, efpecially when tempered 
with milk, in many of thofe cafes. And moreover, 
it is but doing judice to our acid vitriolic waters, to 
acknowlege, that the empirical trials made on them 
by the giddy vulgar have been frequently fuch, as 
demondrate, not only their fafety, but even powers 
ful effects in other rebellious diforders 5 as, particu- 
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