The Dorton Spas, Bucks, chalybeate, sulphurous and saline : a treatise on the extraordinary effects produced by the use of the waters of Dorton, in eruptive, uterine, hepatic, dyspeptic and nervous diseases, attested by the clergy, magistrates, and medical gentlemen of the neighbourhood, with cases / by W. Willcocks Sleigh.

  • Sleigh, W. W. (William Willcocks), 1796-
Date:
1842
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    afflicted with disease; there being three Spas pos- sessing very different qualities ; and acting on the most important organs in the human frame. Section I. History of the Spa, and of its locality. Although the Dorton Spa is, comparatively speaking, little known, yet the attention of the resi- dents of the neighbouring country has been from time immemorial attracted to this spring by ob- serving that diseased cattle spontaneously had re- course to it, and were rapidly cured ! Hence the discovery of the virtues of this water is attributable to that faculty in the brute creation which often surpasses that of intelligence in man—viz. instinct. The manifest advantages derived by diseased ani- mals, soon induced the surrounding peasantry to use it, and many inveterate cases of human suffering became not only relieved, but permanently cured. Of late years, (says Mr. Knight,) its fame has been widely spread in the surrounding country; and the influx of visitors to the well became so great, and at the same time, the injury done to the fences and herbage of the park was so serious, that it was deemed advisable to restrain the pea- santry, who flocked thither, to one path, and to inclose the well. By these precautions, from fifty to one hundred gallons have been daily supplied to B 2