Domestic Encyclopædia (1802)/Supplement/Kilburn-water

KILBURN-WATER, is a saline mineral fluid, obtained from a spring at Kilburn-well, about two miles from the end of Oxford-street, London.

This water was formerly in great repute, but is at present seldom employed. Nevertheless, it promises to be serviceable in cases of habitual costiveness, where powerful laxatives would be productive of dangerous consequences; as it may be used with safety, till the intestines have recovered their natural tone. It may farther be advantageously taken by persons of sedentary lives, who are peculiarly subject to hypochondriasis, indigestion, and other disorders arising from relaxed habits. The dose is from one to three pints, which should be drunk at short intervals, till it produce a purgative effect: and, as its operation is very slow, it appears to be eminently calculated for persons, whose stomachs are delicate ot impaired.