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Credit: The waters of Harrowgate and its vicinity / by Adam Hunter. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![IV PREPACR. before analysed, and of 'some of the other?, the accounls before the public are by no means satisfactory. The experience, which, durinof the lai^t ten years, I have obtained from my vicinity to Harrogate, and the numbers using these waters under rny direction, from this town and neighbourhood, will, I trust, satisfy the general reader, that 1 may not now be considered altogether unequal to the undertaking. Theo)jject,then, of the present Treatise, is to afford a complete analysis of all the Mineral Springs hitherto discovered at Harrogate, which are either of sufficient importance to be used medicinally, or derive notoriety from their situation or contents; with succinct directions for their use; an enumeration of the principal diseases in which ihey have been found most decidedly beneficial; and a few observations on bathing, exercise, and diet. On ^orae of these subjects I could have enlaro-ed to an indefinite extent, but while it was ray wish io omit nothing which was really usejul to the invalid, I vcas equally desirous to avoid unnecessary cUlail. The nature of all works on Mineral Waters renders thera to a certain degree popular, the professional reader however will find that, while I thoroughly despise, as I have too often seen occasion to deplore, those alluring \iews of every man his own doctor, I have endeavoured to state those particulars which could be useful, interesting, or arousing to the general reader, in the manner most ] ikely to arrest the attention. I n the analytical department I have had the co-oper- ation of Mr. West, whose attainments as a practical](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21995989_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
