Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle.

  • Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
Date:
1893
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Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters and chronic diseases : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle and James Aitken Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    -: % =s- The subject of mineral waters is one which has in all times received more attention from the sick themselves than from the fraternity of the healing art. People suffering from long-continued illness will get tired of the ordinary means of cure, and try the extraordinary. Hence flourish all species of quackery and systems of humbug. These failing to afford relief, many resort to mineral springs, and it is for the purpose of showing the propriety of adopting this course before wasting time and money on quack nostrums and homoeopathic nonentities that I now proceed to give my experience of the value of Harrogate waters as therapeutic agents. In doing so, I lay my account with being charged with partiality and one-sidedness; but a few facts will enable me to bear the imputation ; and among these are the following :— Patients return regularly to Harrogate, year after year, for twenty, thirty, aye fort)'- years; I know cases that never miss their three or four weeks of Harrogate water. The inhabitants, especially the older residents, rely on the waters whenever they suffer from symptoms of dyspepsia, biliary or renal derangement, gout or rheumatism ; and last of all, I, whenever I find a case of