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  • A medical treatise on the virtues of Fir-Hill Well, illustrated with select cases. Auctore J. Taylor, M. D. Societatis Medicae Regalis Edinensis Socio; et Collegii Marischallani Apud Abredonenses Socio et Alumno.

    • Taylor, J., M.D., of Aberdeen.
    Date
    [1800]
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  • A short dissertation on the Jamaica bath waters: to which is prefixed, an introduction concerning mineral waters in general; Shewing the Methods of examining them, and ascertaining their Contents. B y Thomas Dancer, M. D. Physician to the Bath.

    • Dancer, Thomas.
    Date
    M.DCCLXXXIV. [1784]
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  • Moffet-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the minerall wells, at Moffet in Annandale of Scotland / translated, and much enlarged, by the author Matthew Mackaile ... ; as also, The oyly-well, or, A topographico-spagyricall description of the oyly-well, at St. Catharines Chappel in the paroch of Libberton ; to these is subjoyned, A character of Mr. Culpeper and his writings, by the same author.

    • Mackaile, Matthew, active 1657-1696
    Date
    1664
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  • Short memoirs for the natural experimental history of mineral waters : addressed by way of letter to a friend / by Robert Boyle.

    • Boyle, Robert, 1627-1691
    Date
    1684/5 [ie. 1685]
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  • An enquiry into the origin and nature of magnesia alba, and the properties of Epsom waters. Demonstrating, that magnesia made with those waters exceeds all others. By D. Ingram, professor of Anatomy and Surgery, and Surgeon to Christ's Hospital.

    • Ingram, Dale, 1710-1793.
    Date
    MDCCLXVII. [1767]
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  • A Short essay on cold mineral waters. Particularly on the mineral waters of Castle-Connel.

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    [1760?]
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  • An enquiry into the contents, virtues, and uses, of the Scarborough Spaw-Waters: with The Method of examining any other Mineral-Water. By Peter Shaw, Physician at Scarborough.

    • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763.
    Date
    MDCCXXXIV. [1734]
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  • Experiments and observations on the Malvern waters. The third edition, enlarged with an additional appendix, Containing several remarkable histories of their effects, which came under the authors own observation. By J. Wall, M.D. physician at Worcester, & late Fellow of Merton College, Oxon.

    • Wall, John, 1708-1776.
    Date
    MDCCLXIII. [1763]
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  • A new experimental inquiry into the nature and qualities of the Cheltenham water. To which are now added, observations on sundry other waters : Shewing how their Properties may be ascertained, their Virtues preserved, their Impurities corrected, &c. With an appendix on the mephitic-alkaline water ; a New and Approved Remedy Against the Stone and Gravel. By A. Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris.

    • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
    Date
    1788
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  • Some remarkable cures performed by the use of the mineral waters at Holt.

    Date
    MDCCXLVII. [1747]
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