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lytic at his arrival as to occasion his being helped out of his carriage by five men, in six weeks after he had used the baths and drank the waters, got into his coach without assistance, and is returned in perfect health to Geneva. Lepers bathe here, and, we are told, some have been cured. The second spring brings down with it a kind of stuff or paste in flakes, in colour and consistence not unlike white of egg a little hardened; which flames and burns when applied to a lighted candle. Curiosity led me to taste the water, of which having drank a glass with several flakes in it; I was almost instantaneously seized with a sickness in the stomach. It is used in consumptions, and all disorders of the breast. I folded up in a paper some of the most condensed flakes, which stuck about the spring, and put them into my pocket-book to dry; but, an hour or two after, there was not the smallest vestige of them to be seen nothing remained but an exceeding bad smell. However, they had covered a knife and scissors, which were near them in my pocket-book, with rust. The stones, which receive the spray of this spring, are pasted over with a green coat resembling vitriol; and in the crevices, where the flakes are collected together, they have acquired a substance as firm as glaziers' putty. This is applied to corns as an infallible remedy. No doubt, it may be endued with many superior virtues; but its medicinal qualities have not yet been properly investigated. On one side of the place, whence
