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Dunstan Times, Issue 426, 17 June 1870, Page 2

When the waters of Glastonbury were at the height of their reputation in 1751, the following story was told by a gentleman of character: —“ An old woman of the workhouse at Yeovil, who had long been a cripple and made use of crutches, was strongly inclined to drink of the Glastonbury water, which she was assured would cure her lameness. The master of the workhouse procured her several bottles of water, which had such an effect that she soon laid aside one crutch, and, not long after, the other. This was e::tolled as a most miracuous cure; but the man protested to his frien s that he had imposed upon her, and fetched water from an ordispring. I need not inform your readers that the force of imagination had spent itself, and she relapsed into her former infirmity.”