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Life at the water cure, or, a month at Malvern; a diary ... to which is added the sequel / [Richard James Lane].

  • Lane, Richard James, 1800-1872
Date:
1846
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Life at the water cure, or, a month at Malvern; a diary ... to which is added the sequel / [Richard James Lane]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ro —DPPresdye— “Having a high forehead, with less hair on the top of his head than gentlemen of forty, or thereabout, usually carry, he is supposed to be literary.—DIcKENs. I am persuaded—very easily—to print the following Journal. Indeed, I am not sure that the idea of publication did not first occur to me; but I am quite certain that I conceived no such fancy until I had nearly completed what was simply designed to record my experience for the amusement and the benefit of my own family, and to remind me of the blessings of that happy month, of the deep obligations that I owe to the ‘* Water Cure”—to the kind Friend who dispensed its benefits, and to the happy circle assembled in his house, whose generous attention ren-