Our baths and wells : the mineral waters of the British islands with a list of sea bathing places / by John Macpherson.

Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Our baths and wells : the mineral waters of the British islands with a list of sea bathing places / by John Macpherson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    analysis of all our principal springs were undertaken by authority^ as a matter of public concern. '' That in the interim the resident practitioners would expedite the work, by preserving accurate journals of the principal cases committed to their care, candidly noting down the unsuccessful, as well as the success- ful, events. The result of such an inquiry, impartially stated, would redound much to their honour, and afford the public more satisfactory information con- cerning the waters, than they have ever yet been favoured with. It would also rescue our medicinal springs from the opprobrium of being frequented, as they now commonly are, on no better foundation, than that of fashion or caprice. Distant practitioners would then be enabled to form a more practical judgment concerning them, and would then Ipe com- petent to determine their choice with propriety. 35, CuRzoN Street, Mayfair, April 20th, 1871.