A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate; containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1822
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate; containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    lie says, indeed, that “ the common people at that time drank them, and that they soon help to cure, by washing and bathing, itch, scab, tetters, ringworm, and the like,” complaints in which a long experience hath shown them to be eminently useful. A remarkable reverse hath taken place—the sulphur wells are now deservedly the most esteemed ; yet either from caprice or the indolence of medical practi- tioners, the chalybeates have been unmeritedly neglected, and we hear of few such cures being performed by them, as most certainly were at that time. Though Dr. Dean mentions bath- ing in the sulphur water, yet we are not in- formed by him, when the water first began to be used as a warm bath; but, from a treatise written by Dr. Neale, in the Year 1656, of which farther notice will soon be taken, it appears that warm bathing in the sulphur wa- ter, was first used the very year Dr. Dean wrote. Dr. Neale’s words are as follow : “It is now 30 years ago since I first set up warm bathing in this water, and procured one such vessel, for a pattern, as are used be- yond the sea, for that purpose; and now there are above 20 bathing-houses kept here, with all necessary conveniences, and all full employed in the season.”