A collection of all the papers, relative to the alleged adulteration of the Cheltenham waters : without comment or observation, leaving it entirely to the dispassionate reader to make his observations thereon : containing Dr. Neale's letter ... . To which is added a reply by James McCabe.

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[1820]
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Credit: A collection of all the papers, relative to the alleged adulteration of the Cheltenham waters : without comment or observation, leaving it entirely to the dispassionate reader to make his observations thereon : containing Dr. Neale's letter ... . To which is added a reply by James McCabe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by University of Bristol Library. The original may be consulted at University of Bristol Library.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. To those who resort to a watering* place merely for the sake of amusement or fashion, or who, in the language of our poet Burns, are in the habit of bows- ing- drumly German water, to make themselves look fair and fatter, it must be a matter of little con- sequence to be informed that the fluid whereof they partake is stimulating or sedative, beneficial or inju- rious, factitious or natural. But to the real invalid, to the man who returns with a shattered constitution, from a long residence in a foreign and unhealthy climate, to spend the evening of life, amongst friends and relatives, for whose sake, perhaps, he is anxious to prolong the close of even a feverish existence; to such a man, I hold it to be of some little moment, that he should be warned against a blind confidence in an equivocal remedy, because he believes it to be a natural one. The late Sir Walter Farquhar, Bart, who like all old and experienced physicians, became, in his latter days, very sceptical, as to the benefit to be derived