The analysis and medical properties of the tepid springs of Buxton : with cases and observations.

  • Charles Scudamore
Date:
1839
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Credit: The analysis and medical properties of the tepid springs of Buxton : with cases and observations. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    CHEMICAL AND MEDICAL PROPERTIES OF THE TEPID SPRINGS OF BUXTON. The etymology of the word Buxton is very doubtful, and numerous conjectures have been offered respecting it. Pegge, in his account of the Roman road through the county of the Coritani, or County of Derby, 1779, takes the name from Boc, Fagus, or Bocca, Caper, and jxcan, a stone. Dr. Pearson imagines that it is derived from Bock-Stein, or Stein-Bock, which is a German word, and signifies that ani- mal which the English call the Stein-Buck, or the wild goat. Buxton, during many centuries famed for its medicinal springs, distant from London 159 miles, is a considerable village in the north-west part of the county of Derby, bor- dering upon Cheshire, from which it is separated by a chain of high mountains, intersected by deep ravines. The whole of this angle of Derbyshire constitutes what is called the Peak hundred, a wild mountainous district, thinly inhabited, and presenting a rude character of country. The following may be offered as a brief geological description.* It is surrounded by hills, which are chiefly calcareous, and which belong to that class of rocks termed, by geologists, transition. The particular formation of limestone is known by several synonymous geological appellations, as Derbyshire limestone, mountain limestone, and carboniferous limestone : * For this interesting statement, I am indebted to the kindness of my friend Mr. Webster, the celebrated geologist, so well known by his Memoir on the London, Isle of Wight, and Paris Basins ; published in the Transactions of the Geological Society in 1814. In my unalysis I received the valuable assistance of Mr. Garden.