A treatise on the waters of Harrogate, and its vicinity / [Adam Hunter].
- Hunter, Adam, 1794-1843.
- Date:
- [1845?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A treatise on the waters of Harrogate, and its vicinity / [Adam Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![It comprises only an account of three springs: the Old Sulphur Well, the Tewit Spring, and the Old Spa. With that respect to his memory which his merits deserve, I beg leave to submit his own words, when summing up the estimate of his la- bours :—“ I have now given a faithful account of my experiments on the three waters most generally used at Harrogate, and 1 hope a more accurate analysis of them than has yet been presented to the public. There is a great variety of waters at Hairogate, of which I have not yet been able to make any accurate analysis. Among the Sulphur waters in the bog, above the village of Low Har- rogate, there are some which are strongly impreg- nated with hepatic air, and which contain a very small quantity of saline matterthese I have found very useful in external applications in some cases, where those which contained more salt occa- sioned great pain. In one of the sulphur w'ells, situate in the bog, I have discovered alum, and I suspect salited clay. In a chalybeate water, near the road, [St. George’^s,] and not far from the Cres- cent Garden, the iron is dissolved in muriatic acid. Sufficient attention has not been paid to these- numerous waters, and many of them, though per- haps capable of very useful application, have not yet been used. I hope, however, in the course of D 3](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28741262_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
