An essay on the contents and virtues of Dunse-Spaw. In a letter to my Lord ------- / [Francis Home].

  • Home, Francis, 1719-1813.
Date:
1751
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Credit: An essay on the contents and virtues of Dunse-Spaw. In a letter to my Lord ------- / [Francis Home]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    drinking the water three weeks, (lie recovered her health, and has continued for fix months quite well. • • • ■ ■*. , & ubt . ■ It has been tried with advantage in frefh paralytic diforders. Mr. —-, far advanced in years, was, laft winter, attacked with a pa¬ ralytic diforder. His legs had ahnoft loft their feeling, ftrength, and motion. His arms were little better. His tongue refufed to do its office. His internal faculties had felt the diforder. The returning heat of fummer gave him fome eafe. He began in July to drink the water. The heat returned gradu¬ ally into his extremities. In fix weeks he could walk to and from the well, could write, and had the full ufe of his tongue and internal faculties. During his cure he paf- fed a great quantity of a fandy-like fubftance. He had during his life fome touches of the gravel. Was that fubftance, pre-exifting in the blood under another fhape, the caufe of his diftemper, when depofited on the nerves ?■ If might be fo. Alexander