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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    no means qualified, as I am told^ for fucli an Undertaking. This Gentleman finding, as he: fays, no fatisfadlory Account of the Water ex¬ tant, undertakes to give one, and dedicates his Book to the Mayor and Corporation. This Book bears date 1703, and is entitled, Johan7m Suhtermo7itani Thermologia, It confifts chiefly- of a Collection of Cafes extracted from a Lift of Cures, which was formerly kept at the Well- houfe; by which he would eftablifli the Uie ol the Water, not only in Diabetes^ Gravel and Scurvy^ but alfo in l^ngs Evil and Leprom Diforders, and in Ihort in every thing. This Hot-well-water, fays he, will extinguifh the Flame in all Synochi and putrid, if not ma- “ lignant. Fevers : it is mfiar omnium the lafll and only Refuge in HeiSticks and Dyfcrafy of Humours. It is of excellent Merit, a Ca- pite ufque ad Calcem^ in all Cephalick Cafes^ and Ataxy of the Spirits, and Palfies and other Impotencies; and as to external Ufes, it is a trufty Afylum in all left off incurable UI- cers, Fiftula*s, and eroding Sores, if not Can- ^^cers;” And in proof of all thefe wonders^ he has his Cafes fign d by the Patients Names,. Thus we fee what a Medley of Conclufions may arife, when People are left to tell their own Cafe, and thefe Relations built upon as Mat-