A brief notice of a portion of a work by William Burke, entitled "The mineral springs of western Virginia" : with preliminary remarks on the relative virtues of the saline and gaseous contents of the white sulphur water / by John J. Moorman.

  • Moorman, J. J. (John Jennings), 1802-1885.
Date:
1843
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Credit: A brief notice of a portion of a work by William Burke, entitled "The mineral springs of western Virginia" : with preliminary remarks on the relative virtues of the saline and gaseous contents of the white sulphur water / by John J. Moorman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    contract between us, for the transportation of the white sulphur water; or to state in so many words that it does provide in the first instance, for transporting and vending the same both in bar- rels and bottles. I am, respectfully, your obedient servant, Wim. B. Calwell. To Dr. Moorman. Having thus, we conceive, removed the basis of Mr. B.'s most direct assault upon the probity of our motives, we will proceed to examine the various objections which he urges to what he terms our theory, and hope to be able to satisfy the public that our practice, and the views promulgated by us, have not only an honest origin, but are sanctioned by experience, and are entirely consonant to well established pathological and therapeutical principles. But, before we proceed farther with this part of of our subject, we Avould respectfully call the atten- tion of the public to the respective positions occupied by Mr. B. and ourselves, relative to the White Sul- phur Springs. He is the propietor of. a would-be rival watering place; we the Resident Physician at the White Sulphur. Which, under the circumstances, we would ask, is likely to feel the deepest interest in the reputation of that water ? Again, which is the most likely to understand the character and peculiari- ties of the white sulphur water? Mr. B., we believe, visited that watering place once, some nineteen or twenty years since, and probably remained a few