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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    they have been known to the country people for upwards of forty years; but one of the old inmers, an mteUigent man, and an enthusiastic admirer of the medicinal virtues of these waters, informs me, that they have been known for at least one himdred years. Thirty-five years ago, according to my informant, the watei* waS' collected in a wooden trough, for the use of the miners, and of the country people, some of whom used it as att aperient, whilst others, deeming the water impreg- nated with common salt merely, employed it for culinary purposes. The only stranger who used the water medicinally at this time was Dr. Porteous of Glasgow. It was, however, much used as a liiedicine by the country people of the neighbour- hood, who attended regularly every Sunday morn- ing to partake of it. About the year 1807, the Airthrey Mines were abandoned and locked up; and the springs being inaccessible, were for some years almost entirely forgotten. At length, in consequence of the suc- ces5-of the Dunblane Springs, they attracted the attention of several persons residing in the neigh- .1
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