Toop and Dr.
Chamberlayn have tryed. It is neer Mr. Willoughby's house: it workes
very kindly, and without any gripeing; it hath been used ever since
about 1672.
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Dr. Guydot sayes the white sediment in the water of North Wiltshire is
powder of freestone; and he also tells me that there is a medicinall
well in the street at Box, near Bathe, which hath been used ever since
about 1670.
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Mr. Nich. Mercator told me that water may be found by a divining rod
made of willowe; whiche he hath read somewhere; he thinks in
Vitruvius. Quaere Sir John Hoskins de hoc.
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In Poulshott parish the spring was first taken notice of about thirty
yeares since by S. Pierse, M.D. of Bathe, and some few made use of it
Some of the Devises, who dranke thereof, told me that it does good for
the spleen, &c., and that a hectick and emaciated person, by drinking
this water, did in the space of three weekes encrease in flesh, and
gott a quick appetite.
Memorandum. In this village are severall springs, which tast brackish;
which I had not the leisure to try, but onely by pr?cipitation, and
they yield a great quantity of the white flower-like sediment.
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Bitteston.- At the George Inne, the beere that is brewed of the well
there is diuretique. I knew some that were troubled with the stone and
gravell goe often thither for that reason.
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