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 Rh It has frequently happened to me to see young persons, of either sex, with five, six, or more, old fistulous sores about the neck and angle of the jaw, entirely cured in three or four months, by allowing the water to trickle (or rather fall down) from the spout upon them. At first this is, of course, productive of considerable pain from the coldness of the water, and can be borne only for a few minutes; but I have seen persons, after a little time, able to keep the neck under the spout for fifteen or twenty minutes twice a day. Similar ulcerations about the joints, heal by the same treatment. Even in cases where the ulcers and fistulous openings are kept up by disease of the bones, the air, water, and situation of Malvern, often effect a great and marked improvement, and sometimes a perfect cure.

In many cases of disease and irritation in the bladder, attended with frequent desire to make water, and pain after its evacuation, also in disorders of the urinary organs, accompanied with the lithic acid, or phosphatic deposit in the urine, I have seen a very liberal internal use of the water decidedly beneficial; and elderly persons, afflicted with organic changes in these organs, have often acknowledged to me that they live in greater comfort, and are freer from irritation or pain, at Malvern than elsewhere.

The common people extol the use of the waters in inflammation of the eyes; and, in some of the simpler cases, they are often very serviceable as a cooling external application. At Malvern Wells there is a spring called the Eye Well.

In various cutaneous affections they are often