Volume 1

An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764.
Date:
1745
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Patient us’d to drink of the Water daily during the Cure ad libitum : Now, I fay, if this Spring is of fuch wonderful Efficacy in fo very malignant Ulcers of the outward Parts, why Ihould it not exert it felf in the Kidnies which it runs through, and heal Ul- cers there ? The fame Y^rMaplet in a Letter dated written to Dr Creyghton Dean of Wells (after¬ wards Bifhop) fays, “but if you receive little “ benefit from what I have propos’d, I really ^^fhould advife you to Briflol Water; which is of excellent Virtue in all Difbrders of the “Kidnies, and Bladder whatfoever. And a- gain, in a Letter wrote the January following; — “You’ll confider of the advice I gave yoU; “ about drinking our Waters, and be perfwaded. I hope, to come and try their Effebts in the Spring, when the warm Weather comes on. And again, in a Letter dated Apr. 7. “ In my opinion you fliould come to Briflol, “to drink our Waters; which are very bene- “ ficial to the Kidnies and Bladder, be the Cafe either Stone or Ulcer 5 which alfo greatlj “cool and temper the Blood, and thereby “ foften the Urine which is difcharg d from it. In another Letter to Dr Wall.^ he fpeaks oj Briflol and defcribes the place whence