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... desire of curtailment , have extended over upwards of six hun- dred pages , the reader will at once perceive that observations , embracing nearly two - thirds of the island , and referring to between seventy and eighty places , whether ...
... desire of curtailment , have extended over upwards of six hun- dred pages , the reader will at once perceive that observations , embracing nearly two - thirds of the island , and referring to between seventy and eighty places , whether ...
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... desires to call the attention of his readers to two particular features of the present Volumes . The first is the introduction of not fewer than three recently- discovered Spas of value , particularly the one in Lincoln- shire , of ...
... desires to call the attention of his readers to two particular features of the present Volumes . The first is the introduction of not fewer than three recently- discovered Spas of value , particularly the one in Lincoln- shire , of ...
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... desire to avoid the incon- venience , fatigue , and expense of proceeding to the latter places for that purpose , will not be sorry to peruse the account here contained of the sea - bathing places in question . At twenty minutes after ...
... desire to avoid the incon- venience , fatigue , and expense of proceeding to the latter places for that purpose , will not be sorry to peruse the account here contained of the sea - bathing places in question . At twenty minutes after ...
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... desire to try on myself , and ascertain by my own feel- ings , the effects of the various mineral waters I have examined . Sometimes the most ludicrous scenes occur in these genera- lizing plunging - baths , where every body is admitted ...
... desire to try on myself , and ascertain by my own feel- ings , the effects of the various mineral waters I have examined . Sometimes the most ludicrous scenes occur in these genera- lizing plunging - baths , where every body is admitted ...
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... desire in such an apartment . The attendance also is perfect . There are two such private baths for gentlemen , and the same number for ladies : besides the public one for either sex . I should have expected a much larger number of both ...
... desire in such an apartment . The attendance also is perfect . There are two such private baths for gentlemen , and the same number for ladies : besides the public one for either sex . I should have expected a much larger number of both ...
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The Spas of England, and Principal Sea-Bathing Places: Midland Spas Augustus Bozzi Granville No preview available - 2018 |
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Page 44 - At another part of his work on the spas of England, he says, that "the efficacy of the Buxton waters used as baths at their natural temperature is more strikingly manifested in cases of general debility, partial paralysis, and that peculiar state of weakness which is the result of rheumatic affection and repeated attacks of gout. In the latter case, indeed, Buxton has acquired a wellknown reputation.
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Page 47 - I can conscientiously aver, from my extended experience of mineral waters" on the continent, "that persons afflicted" with the diseases named, " who require the aid of a suitable mineral water, will find that needful aid at Buxton, provided they abjure, on proceeding thither, the sad and interfering practice of constantly drugging their stomachs by way of treatment, and leave nature to nature alone, — namely, the mineral waters, and the pure, elastic, and bracing mountain air of the Spa.