The spas of Germany. With a supplement, i.e. 'The spas revisited' / [A.B. Granville].

  • Augustus Granville
Date:
1843
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Credit: The spas of Germany. With a supplement, i.e. 'The spas revisited' / [A.B. Granville]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    This circumstance is gratifying; but still more so is the distin- guished manner in which the several Sovereigns of the countries whose Spas I have described, have been pleased to acknowledge, by letters and honorary rewards, the correctness and utility of the publication. Nor is it less flattering to my feelings to find that, independently of two pirated Editions of the entire work in France and Belgium, and an abridgment of it from the Leipzig press,—separate publications have appeared also at some of the principal Spas, where my account of each place, taken from the general work, has been reprinted in the original language in a separate form, with not a single alteration in the descriptions, narrative of facts, anecdotes, or statistical calcula- tions, but only a very few literal or orthographical emendations. I may make the same observation with regard to the friendly and commendatory notice taken, by the principal Spa-physi- cians, of the several portions of this work which refer to the places with which they are individually most conversant; particu- larly by Dr. De Carro, Dr. Peez, Dr. Maas, and Dr. Heidler —the former of whom has actually done me the honour of adopting, translating, and publishing without alteration, my in- troductory “ Popular Considerations on the Use and Power of Mineral Waters ”—a task which, I am informed, has since been undertaken, in Italian also, by the celebrated Professor Frank, of Milan, and formerly of the University of Wilna. These several testimonies, together with the very flattering manner in which four-and-twenty various'periodieals in England have reviewed the work, more than compensate the Author for his labour; and have stimulated him to further exertions on this occasion, for the purpose of rendering the present Edition equally worthy of the public favour. Grafton Street, July 1838.
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