Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet.

  • Gifford-Bennet, Robert Ottiwell.
Date:
1892
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet. 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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    they would readily discover by receiving fresh energy to their wearied bodies, from the stimu- lating action of the water immediately upon taking a bath, as well as relief from many diseases, especially of a rheumatic character, to which their life of hardship and exposure rendered them so liable. From the Roman period until about the year 1572 there is little or no recorded history of Buxton. About that time, however, a Dr. Jones wrote a treatise on the Buxton Spa, advocating its claims so forcibly to those afflicted with gout or rheumatism that ere long it became the resort of the elite in the fashionable world as well as the poor. Dr. Jones mentions in his very interesting treatise that in his time Buxton was resorted to by large numbers of the poor and afflicted people from the surrounding districts. The indigence and deplorable condition of some of these people were so extreme and their numbers so great that to supply their necessi- ties the whole of the treasury of the bath fund was consumed, part of which the people of the adjoining chapelry of Fairfield claimed for the