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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    not that he pronounceth the Water good a- gainft the Spleen. A Virtue I am fure does not belong to it, nor can I find out, who firft taught it did. Probably as it fliewed itfelf as Diuretick, and might in fome fcorbutick Hy- pochondriacks agree well, it was imagin’d to be of no fmall Efficacy this way, efpecially as it had been hitherto fuppofed to be impreg¬ nated with Iron, a Charadter which it will ap¬ pear from what follows, to have kept much longer than one could believe, if thofe only had wrote of the Water, who were acquainted with the Nature of it. In 1(^72 Claromontius publifli’d a Treatife de Aere^ Aquis^ & Locis Anglite ^ in which he fpeaks of as good for the Gra¬ vel, and Obftrudfions of the Inteftines: As to himfelf he tells you, they did not agree with him by any means, for they made him puke, and did not pafs as they fhould do by Urine; he fancied them of an acerb Tafte, and tells you they are a harfli Water, and that if they do not pafs by Urine, they either come up again by Vomit, or gripe the Bowels and caufe Ruptures. As this Gentleman, tho’ a Phyfician, was a Stranger, we cannot exped: fo accurate an Ac¬ count of them as from thofe acquainted with the