Report, chemical and medical, of the Airthrey mineral springs : and a list of phænogamous plants collected in their vicinity / by William Hutton Forrest.

Date:
1831
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Credit: Report, chemical and medical, of the Airthrey mineral springs : and a list of phænogamous plants collected in their vicinity / by William Hutton Forrest. 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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    sons, that this water, from its vicmity to the cop- per vein, must be necessarily impregnated with copper, and that, although it was not altogether poisonous, it was, said they, certainly highly in- jurious to the constitution. This gratuitous as- sertion was easily refuted. Rigid chemical analysis proved that the water contained no copper; and daily experience with it in various diseases showed in a manner no less decided, that it might be used, not only with safety, but with great and perma- nent benefit to the patient. The assertion, m con- sequence, was justly interpreted by the pubUc; and the celebrity of the Airtln-ey Springs remain- ed unimpaired. During the past year, 1830, not fewer than one hundred strangers were com- pelled to leave these Springs in the course of one week, for want of accommodation, although several houses have been built in the viUage adjacent to them, since 1823, The demand fortius water having been steadily on the mcrease since 1823, Sir Robert Abercrom- by determmed, in 1826, to secure it in a perma- nent manner, for behoof of the public. In tliia