A hand-book of the Peak of Derbyshire, and to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson ; with ... a botanical commentary & list of plants by the late Miss Hawkins.

  • Robertson, William Henry.
Date:
1872
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A hand-book of the Peak of Derbyshire, and to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson ; with ... a botanical commentary & list of plants by the late Miss Hawkins. 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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    RAILWAY EXTENSIONS TO BUXTON. access which have been afforded by railway extensions. It might have been expected that a place mainly dependent on the curative value of its Mineral Waters, would be especially influenced by a readier communication with other places; and more particularly, when the curative value applies chiefly to the crippling effects of rheumatism. The immediate effect of the railway extensions to Buxton upon the class of patients, the severity of the cases, and the distances of the localities from which they are derived, admitted year by year to the benefits of the Buxton Bath Charity and its Devonshire Hospital, has exemplified the influence thus exerted on the usefulness and prosperity of Buxton and its Waters. Degrees of suffering and disablement, which would have rendered the removal to Buxton, even from the adjacent towns, difficult, hazardous, or impossible, are now found to be easily brought to the Hospital from the more distant parts of the kingdom. As a rule, travelling by railway seems to task very slightly the strength or sensitiveness of invalids; and the roomy carriages and rapid transit lessen suffering and fatigue to a degree that scarcely could have been anticipated. Whether as regards the applicability of the Buxton Waters to a more severely afflicted class of invalids than could have previously travelled to Buxton, or their use by invalids from more distant places than heretofore, the effect of the railways upon their medical character and value, is probably capable of indefinite development. This, however, by no means embraces the whole matter in all its bearing. The upland district of Buxton and the mountain limestone represent a vast sanatorium, where sufferers from the atmosphere and occupations of the larger towns, and from places of lower elevation and damper soil, might easily seek renewal of