An account of Peterhead : its mineral well, air, and neighbourhood / By William Laing.

  • Laing, William
Date:
1793
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Credit: An account of Peterhead : its mineral well, air, and neighbourhood / By William Laing. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    on by a rheumatic fever, declared to me, that he found Jmnfelf refrefhed by the air of the place, even before he had reached the town: and that, before he could enjoy the benefit of the bath or water, his ftrength and fpirits were much reftored, A much more certain, as being a much more lafting and conftant inftance of’the fame, we have in the learned and benevolent Dr. B**# my mod refpefted friend. Naturally healthy, but not robuft, from much literary application he became valetudinary ; and ufually found it proper to fpend fome part of the fummer at Peterhead. For a long time he perfifted in ufing the bath and water; becaufe though neither of them agreed with him in the mean- time, he found himfelf f better for them afterwards. At Iaft he gave them both up, and now depending on the air of the place alone, he finds more benefit merely by living in Peterhead, than he ever did while he ufed the bath and water. Hence it is no wonder if we enjoy the credit and gratification of his company du- ring a confiderable part of every fummer. And that mod excellent Youth, author of the beautiful poem at the end of this treatife, ufed, chiefly for the fake of its pure air, to prefer Peterhead to every other part of the ifland, with many parts of which he was well acquaint- ed. Here he chofe to live as much as he could : here he acquired fome of his many extraordinary accom- plifhments; here he compofed fome of his poems, and other literary works : and here have I often en- joyed, from his company and converfation, a degree of pleafure that is feldom to be looked for in this world. And he had reafon to be pleafed with the air of this place : for by it he two feveral times recovered from an a (limit of that cruel diforder, [confumption,] from whole fatality at la A, neither this air, nor the advice of the
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