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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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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    tors, with alkalies, dropping them alternately' several times into the same glass of water, but does not draw any conclusions cf consequence from them. After this the mineral waters at Harrogate seem not to have engaged the attention of any writer, for a considerable time, no publication appealing on the subject for near 70 years; when the ingenious and indefatigable Dr. Short, of Sheffield, in the year 1734, published his natural, experimental, and medicinal his- tory of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lin- colnshire, and Yorkshire. In this elaborate work, the author treats of 131 mineral waters, which he had examined with the greatest at- tention. IJis work at that time was the best extant, and w as so much esteemed by the roy- al society, that Dr. Short was requested to publish it, by that learned body, as we find in an extract from their records, prefixed to the work. It was not to be expected, that the celebrated mineral waters at Harrogate would escape the attention of this accurate observer : lie made more experiments, and these Avere better conducted, than those of any author before him; but still, on account of the ini-