A letter addressed to the gentlemen of the medical profession on the nature and properties of the aluminous chalybeate water, at Sand Rocks, in the parish of Chale, in the Isle of Wight : the diseases in which it has been advantageously employed, and the administering it both internally and externally.

  • Waterworth, T.L.
Date:
1814
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Credit: A letter addressed to the gentlemen of the medical profession on the nature and properties of the aluminous chalybeate water, at Sand Rocks, in the parish of Chale, in the Isle of Wight : the diseases in which it has been advantageously employed, and the administering it both internally and externally. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    0 for the residence of Invalids, the inconvenience which heretofore attended their access to it having been entirely removed, by the liberal aid of a few individuals; and a road has within the last two years, been formed through the tractless waste, sufficient for the passing of a carriage to the top of the spring; this however it is hoped will not only be still further improved, by the general amend- ment in the roads now makinar throughout the Island, but will also be carried on through the village of Chale to Freshwater, thus connecting the two extreme points of the Island, and forming an uninterrupted ride, unequalled for beauty and majestic scenery. Although the spring may be said to be a» yet only in the infancy of its discovery, yet the singular good effects which have already been derived from the use of the water, and consequently the great probability that this part of the Island, ^will shortly become a place of fashionable resort, has induced a Gentleman to open an Inn, at the south west extremity of Niton, to which he has given the very appropriate name of the Sand Rock Spring Hotel, which he has furnished with every accommodation suitable either to the invalid or votary of pleasure. The situa- tion of the house is admirably chosen for the pur- pose, commanding the finest views of the sea and surrounding country, that can possibly be imagined.