Transcriber’s notes: Apart from the corrections listed below, the text of this e-book has been preserved as in the original. Italic text is denoted by _underscores_. universa → universal Digeston → Digestion liqours → liquors hydochondriac → hypochondriac childdren → children loosenese → looseness watet → water appply → apply rhey → they absoltue → absolute or → of yest → yeast distilation → distillation mettalic → metallic Leediensis → Leodiensis sudirifics → sudorifics primative → primitive closs → close it → is decripedness → decrepidness THE VIRTUES OF COMMON WATER: OR, _THE ADVANTAGES THEREOF_, IN PREVENTING AND CURING MANY DISTEMPERS. GATHERED _From the writings of several eminent Physicians, and also from more than forty years experience_. By JOHN SMITH, C. M. To which is added, SOME RULES FOR PRESERVING HEALTH BY DIET. _That’s the best physic, which doth cure our ills Without the charge of ’pothecaries bills._ _THE TENTH EDITION, WITH ADDITIONS._ [Illustration] COMMUNICATED BY _Mr RALPH THORESBY, F. R. S. and Others_. [Illustration] DUNDEE, _PRINTED BY T. COLVILL AND SON_, FOR G. MILLN, BOOKSELLER. 1799. THE VIRTUES OF COMMON WATER. [Illustration]