Cheltenham and its resources : mineral waters, climate, etc., considered chiefly in a sanative point of view / by Edwin Lee.

  • Lee, Edwin, -1870.
Date:
1851
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Credit: Cheltenham and its resources : mineral waters, climate, etc., considered chiefly in a sanative point of view / by Edwin Lee. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    INTRODUCTOEY NOTICE. . . . . • Quid terras alio calentes Sole mutamus ? Horace. In the spring of 1849, a number of gentlemen, interested in the prosperity of Cheltenham, and desirous to maintain its reputation as the Queen of English Spas, formed themselves into a Committee, with a view to promote its attractions to visitors, and entered into subscriptions to defray the expenses which might be incurred in carrying out their design. They were countenanced and assisted by the advice and support of the resident medical practitioners, and some handsome contributions to their funds were made by the Earl Fitz- hardinge, the Lords Northwick, De Saumarez, and Dunalley, and many gentlemen of the town and neighbourhood. It being notorious that, of late years, the tendency of fashion, aided by the facility of travelling, has been to divert the flow of temporary visitors to watering places, whether for health or recreation, from England to the Continent, it seemed to the Committee extremely desirable, if possible, to recal the public to the claims of Cheltenham to vie with, if not to excel, more distant resorts, in the efficacy of its mineral springs, in the beauty of its situation and vicinity, the salu- brity of its climate, and the means it aifords of social enjoy- ment and domestic comfort.* They considered that, not- * Among these, the cheapness and excellence of its markets, and the unrivalled cleanliness of its streets and promenades, ought not to be overlooked ; nor the prevalent completeness of all the minor a 3