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Excerpt from Experiments and Observations on the Mineral Waters of Philadelphia, Abington, and Bristol, in the Province of Pennsylvania: Read June 18, 1773, Before the American Philosophical Society, Held at Philadelphia
H E difi'erent Rages of fociety, like the different T ages of the human body,'have their peculiar dif cafes. In the infancy of all focieties, difeafes are fimple and few in number, but in proportion as they advance in arts and Opulence, which always bring along with them the refinements of luxury, difeafes multiply, and are complicated in fuch a manner, as to require more powerful aids than the fimple preparations of plants and metals. Thefe aids have been fought for from a variety of fources, but from none oftener than mineral waters. Thefe waters, which have ¿owed for many years unno t'iced by our ance¿ors, have, of late, attraéted the atten tion of the public, and have now become a very import ant part of the materia medica.
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