reputation in Europe, after having opposed it for a long time, have at last adopted it, and candidly owned their conviction of it's truth. I mean Dr. Black, and Mr. Kirwan. With regard to the medical part of my treatise, besides what has occurred to my own observation, I have freely availed myself of whatever I found useful in preceding writers, and by this method, without claiming much merit to myself, I hope I have been able to present the reader with more complete directions for the use of the Harrogate waters, and with such as are less liable to exceptions than have hitherto appeared; I have, however, been careful to acknow ledge my obligation to the various authors on this subject, by quoting the works, from which their sentiments are taken. HARROGATE, May 1, 1794. SECT. II. Of the Old Spaw. Of the Tewit Spaw Table, exhibiting the contents, in a wine gallon, of each of the Harrogate waters SECT. V. Observations on the different permanently elastic fluids, with which these waters are impregnated PART III. Of the medicinal properties of the Harrogate waters Of the salubrity of the air at Harrogate 39 65 75 81 107 108 120 PAGE. Medicinal properties of the chalybeate waters 125 Useful in nervous disorders - all cases of relaxed solids . - ib. ib. PART I. The History OF THE Harrogate Waters. MANKIND would undoubtedly be come early acquainted with mineral waters: the savage, furnished with no other criterion than taste, would soon perceive a difference among the springs, to which he came to quench his thirst. But, besides this, as the illustrious Bergman observes, the preparation of food, and the various arts and manufactures which afterwards began to be studied, as mankind became more civilized, must gradually have suggested a difference in the properties and goodness of waters, with respect to certain purposes, although we may be at present ignorant of the manner and order in which these discoveries occurred. We may with propriety say, that we meet with no water B |