The thermal baths of Bath : their history, literature, medical and surgical uses and effects, together with the Aix massage and natural vapour treatment / by Henry William Freeman.
- Freeman, Henry William, 1842-1897
- Date:
- 1888
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: The thermal baths of Bath : their history, literature, medical and surgical uses and effects, together with the Aix massage and natural vapour treatment / by Henry William Freeman. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.
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![Phillips, Sir Richard.—A Guide to all the Watering and Sea- bathing Places ; with a description of the Lakes ; a Sketch of aTour in Wales; and Itineraries. London, 1806. i2mo. [Note. —Contains a plan of the city and map of the country between Bath and Bristol, a view of the city from the Wells Road, and views of the Pump Room and North Parade, and 52 pp. of letterpress. Sir Richard died at Brighton in his 73rd year. He was born in London, and educated at Soho Square, and at Chiswick. His original name was Philip Richards. In 1786 he became an assistant in a school at Chester, and then afterwards went to Leicester and opened a school. In about a year he left his school and became a hosier. In 1790, he established The Leicester Herald, a democratic paper. He was prosecuted for selling Paine's Rights of Man, and sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment. After his release he parted with his paper, and returned to his hosiery business, till a fire consumed his house and stock. Being well insured he removed to St. Paul's Churchyard. London, where he opened a shop as a hosier. He then married Miss Griffiths. On the 1st July, 1799, he established The Monthly Magazine, with Dr. John Aiken as editor, assisted by a talented phalanx of Dissenters in Church and State. This successful literary pub- lication was followed by numerous other important works, most of which are enumerated in Gent. Mag. for 1840. In 1807 he was elected Sheriff of London. His activity in that office was exemplary and beneficial, and he was knighted on the 30th March, 1808. At this time he published a memoir of his own career. Shortly afterwards, whilst his business seemed wonderfully oti the increase, his commercial concerns became embarrassed, and his large establis:hment in New Bridge-street was broken up. Sir Richard recovered the Monthly Magazine and some of his beneficial copyrights, which he continued to manage with success. A list of his own writings may be seen, with fuller particulars of his life, in the Gent. Mag. for August, 1840, pp. 212-214. (His work on the Baths is more curious than valuable. An anecdote was told of Sir Richard to the editor of this book by a literary friend, which is worth repeating. Before leaving Leicester he wrote a short treatise for a local work. Unfortunately the type got into pie, but not having time to correct it he allowed it to be printed as it stood, with the title A Chinese Puzzle. After some years he returned to Leicester for a brief period, and was encountered by an old friend, who sternly demanded a translation of the Chinese Puzzle, which he had for twenty years vainly tried to make out, and was so angry when he ascertained the truth that he never spoke to his old friend again.)] Pictorial World (The).—An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper. 1874. [A page of 12 views of Bath and a full-page engraving, TheRoyal Pump Room, Bath ; Drinking the Waters. These are accompanied by a couple of columns of letter-press written by J. Tom Burgess.] Peirce, Robert.—(See Biography ; also page 129.) In the Philo- sophical Transactions, No. 169, there is a paper, An Account of the Efficacy for curing Palsies and Barrenness. By Dr. R. P(eirce).](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21053212_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
