Callirhoe; commonly called the Well of Spa, or the Nymph of Aberdene. ... What diseases may be cured by drinking of the Well of Spa at Aberdene, and wht is the true use thereof. As it was printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1615. And now reprinted at Aberdene by John Forbes Younger ... MDCLXX / Resuscitat by William Barclay.

  • Younger John Forbes.
Date:
1799
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Credit: Callirhoe; commonly called the Well of Spa, or the Nymph of Aberdene. ... What diseases may be cured by drinking of the Well of Spa at Aberdene, and wht is the true use thereof. As it was printed by Andro Hart, Anno Dom. 1615. And now reprinted at Aberdene by John Forbes Younger ... MDCLXX / Resuscitat by William Barclay. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bificke oiufes by the urines. I have feen fundry men & women cured of great Sc tedious difeafes by vomiting after the drinking of this water. This Nymph, beyond the cuftome of all her fexe, refrefheth and augmenteth the wearie and dull fpirits of any patient, flie corroborateth and confirmeth a weake ftomacke, ftie quickneth a languifhing appetite, Ihe helpeth digeftion, flie pearceth through all obdrudlions, and cureth difeafes that follow thereupon, as the yallow, the pale colours, a fkirre or hardnefs of the liver or melt: fhe giveth health principally to the ge- neral partes of the one and the other fex, flie is. the Panacea ior theflonein the neirs or bladder, and taketh away the hereditare difpofition to that difeafe, by altering the natural temperament of thefe partes, and cutting away the antecedant caufe : it cureth alfo the ulcers of the neirs and bladder, and healeth the carnofitie which is en- gendred in meatu urinario. And there is no bet- ter remedie for the filthy & {PinYingGenorrheea, which vulgarly is called the chaud-pifs, which is the ordinarie and fure reward of abufers of Venus: f the aboundance of flipperle and teugh phlegme impede a woman to conceave, or be- ing conceaved, caufe her to prevent the right time of her birth, the difcreet ufe of this water will affure her of better fuccefs. I have cured fundrie of that fex in France, of a long, noy- fome and fearful ficknefs, to which many of them are fubjecf, (I knowe they underftand what I meane,) by drinking of fuch water, and that both virgins, widows, and married women. This water hath a fpeclal vertue to helpe thofe B