A guide to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson.

  • Robertson, William Henry, 1810-1897.
Date:
1891
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A guide to the use of the Buxton mineral waters / by William Henry Robertson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    the Hospital has been extended to the whole range of buildings connected with it. It is a matter of curious history that the interior facade of the building is an almost exact copy of “ The Palace of Christian Kings, at Grenada.” I have before me a print of the interior area of this ancient or mediaeval palace, with its great insulated supporting columns, which might almost have been drawn from the interior of the Buxton Hospital. It does appear to be an extreme turn of what we may surely think to be Providential fortune, that such a building should have been used as the design for stables, and the stables have become, little more than eighty years after their erection, a magnificent hospital for the reception and care of the poor afflicted sufferers resorting to Buxton for the use of its mineral waters. The print of the Palace at Grenada is contained in a work entitled “ Les Delices de L’Espagne et du Portugal,” published at Leyden in the year 1707. The date of the erection of the Palace is not given, but is probably much more ancient. The Devonshire Hospital is perhaps visited year after year by a greater number of strangers and tourists, as well as more beneficially occu- pied, than the ancient Palace from which its construction has been copied. C. F. WAKDiiEY, Printer, Advertiser Office, Market Place, Buxton.