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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    celculous and ulcerous AfFedtions of the Kid- nies and Bladder^ taken inwardly j and to di¬ vers Sores and Humours applied outwardly. And this is confirm’d by the Teftimony of Mr Onejiphorus Tyndal now living, who came to Brijiol in 1^743 at which Time he informs me, that this Water was in ufe chiefly for the Stone and Gravel; that People *ufually wafli’d them- felves with it for the Itch, with great Sue- cefs; but as to any thing further, it was in no Reputation, ’till fuch Time as it was found out to be a Cure for the Diabetes. The Oc- cafion of which Difeovery he affures me was as follows. It happen’d about the Year 16So, that two or three Perlons of Note in Brifiol died of this Diftemper; thePhyficians acknow¬ ledging and bewailing the Inefiicacy of their Art in fuch manner, as it was look’d upon by every Body to be incurable. One Mr William Guggj a Baker who liv’d in Caftle-Street^ being feized with it, was accordingly defpair’d of by all that knew him ; but dreaming one Night, that he drank plentifully of the Hot- Well-Water, and was wonderfully refreflied by it, he was much inclin’d the next Morning to quench his thirfl: with it, and found it to an- fwer to his Wifli fo effedlually, that by con¬ tinuing the Ufe of it, in a few Days he came abroad,