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which had much enlarged the joint and fouled the 
bone. He had been long attended by two furgeons 
of eminence, who had at laft propofed amputation, 
as the only probable means of cure. His parents not 
being willing to fubmit to this, fent him to Mal- 
vern, and by the ufe of this water, for a few months 
he was perfectly cured, and the limb has remained 
well ever fince. 
A poor woman near this city was covered with: 
the mold frightful leprofy I ever faw. The fcabs. 
were very numerous, large, and in many places 
more than a quarter of an inch thick. She had 
loft her eyebrows, and was fo hoarfe that fhe 
could hardly articulate. Many of the moft efhca- 
cious medicines had been tried by me and others, 
without fuccefs; at laft fhe was fent to Malvern, 
and a little hut built for her. near the well, by the 
charity of a neighbouring gentleman*. She ufecL 
the water both externally and internally. In two or 
three months her fkin was tolerably cleared, and fhe 
began to recover her voice; and by continuing the 
water, fhe was at length perfe&ly cured.. 
In the year 1754 I recommended thefe waters to a 
young woman, daughter to one Mr. Wilrnot, a fhoe- 
maker in Bewdly. She had long had a fcrophulous 
ulcer in each cheek, and anophthaimy in each eye, 
which made her unable to bear the light, . or to find 
her way about the houfe. She had continued in this 
condition nine or ten months, and tho’ fire had ap- 
plied to feveral perfons of fkill, had not received, 
much benefit from any medicines or applications 
* Reginald Lygon, Efq.; 
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