Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, James, 1730-1802.
Date:
[1787?]
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Credit: Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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

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    Tewkefbury, however, has equally a Right to the Benefit of its natural Riches, and to the Advantages which may accrue to it from the Vicinity of Walton Waters in particular. This Borough is fituated on a fertile Plain, at the Conflux of the River Avon with the Severn. The To-wn is well built, and now well paved, and, Proviflons of every Kind, particularly the finefl Salmon, are in great plenty. It communicates by a very good Road, to fine rides towards Worcefter, Upton and Malvern, and is only eight Miles from Cheltenham. In thefe rides, the various Views of a mofl Piclurefque Country, charm the Eye, and male the falutary Exercife of riding delightful. Malvern, rifing in benign Majcfly, diffufes all around a pure and temperate Air; a Water exceeding all others in elementary Purity ; which ever)’ Tear manifefls its fa~ lubrity in curingDifeafes which have baffled the Power of Medi- cine in other Situations. Tewkefbury, and its Environs, befides the flriling beauties of the Country, prefent to the Ohfervation of the curious ; A Field of Battle where a Vi Story was obtained, which fixed the Crown on the Head ^Edward IV. A Church, one of the finefl Gotkick Structures in England; in which He the Remains