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larly, our Kilbrew water (one of the fharpefr and 
moft ftrongly faturated with martial vitriol of all 
thefe waters yet difcovered), in the notable cure of 
an afcites, complicated with a jaundice, which I 
have elfewhere related ; and I lee no reafon why 
phyficians fhould not, in this as well as other cafes, 
avail themfelves of the happy fuccefs of fuch cafual 
experiments. 
In order, therefore, to promote a view of this 
kind ; and, furthermore, as thefe vitriolic waters are 
better adapted for ufe than the ordinary chalybeates, 
as bearing carriage to remote places, and may be 
kept fit for ufe at all feafons of the year, and are to 
be preferred in medical intentions, whenever the 
fixongefi: of the chalybeates are required, and can be 
borne j I Avail here, from fadts and obfervations made 
on the feveral waters of this fort, which have fallen 
under my notice, give a fhort fketch of their general 
operation and good effedts, as a foundation for fur- 
ther improvements. 
Thefe waters, then, generally operate as an emetic 
or cathartic, or both ; and have recommended them- 
felves, in external and internal ufe, as a powerful de- 
tergent, repelling, bracing, ftyptic, cicatrizing, anti- 
fcorbutic, and deobftruent medicine, as hath ap- 
peared by the notable cures they have effected, not 
only by external ufe in inveterate ulcers, the itch, 
mange, fcab, tetterous eruptions, fcald head, and 
fore eyes but alfo by internal ufe in hot tetterous 
eruptions, dyfenteries, internal haemorrhages, in 
gleets, the fiuor albus, and diarrhaca, in the worms, 
agues, dropfies, and jaundice. 
Such 
