A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate, containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / [Thomas Garnett].

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802
Date:
1792
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Credit: A treatise on the mineral waters of Harrogate, containing the history of these waters, their chemical analysis, medicinal properties, and plain directions for their use / [Thomas Garnett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    lowing pages, that they are no less useful in a great variety of complaints. The principal object of this treatise, is to lay before professional gentlemen an analysis of these waters, and a short account of their medicinal properties, by which I am induced to hope that they may be rendered more extensively useful to mankind. Besides this, I have thought it nec¬ essary to add a few plain directions for the use of those who come to drink the waters. The prosecution of this plan rendered it necessary for j * ] . * ■ VJ ‘ me to treat the first and last parts in a very different manner, and perhaps requires an apo- logy to the two classes of readers Jor which the - - * work is intended. The learned and professional reader, will, I hope, excuse my being minute .and particular in my directions, and pardon my men- . X t ) a ' N4 .# * _ V. tioning many things with which every medical man is acquainted, but which it is necessary for the unlearned drinker to know, for which rea¬ son I have endeavoured to render my language in that part as plain, and as free from techni¬ cal terms as I could. The reader who is unacquainted with chemis¬ try or medicine, will, I hope, excuse the atten¬ tion I have paid to the analysis, especially when v he