A treatise, on the mineral waters, of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett.

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802.
Date:
1799
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Credit: A treatise, on the mineral waters, of Harrogate : containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / by Thomas Garnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    stone, he informs us, that in his time were to be seen about half a mile from the spaw, the ruins of one of the large iron works which occasioned the total consumption of the wood in the forest, which Dr. Short observes, “ was formerly so thick of wood, that he was thought a cunning fellow who could readily find out these spaws” Dr. Stan- hope is the first writer who mentions the Old Spaw situated before the Granby, which he says he dis- covered in the year 1631, and which he prefers to the Tewit Well ; “ 1st. Because its situation is more convenient; 2d. Because it changes sooner and deeper with galls ; 3d. It is lighter, less nau- seous, and goes sooner off than the other j 4th. It will carry farther and keep better and longer, being put in clean, new, close bottles; 5th. Be- sides the iron and vitriol, it contains a little sulphur which makes it more balsamic and healing.” In this he differs from all other physicians who have made experiments on these two waters, and though this spring be at present more used, yet I do not know one good reason for the preference, except- ing the convenience of the situation; for it will appear from the analysis of these waters, which I have made with great care, that the Tewit Well is rather more strongly impregnated with the principles from which these waters derive their virtues, than the Old Spaw. With regard to the latter’