GUIDE

TO THE

CHALYBEATE SPRING

OF

Thetford,

EXHIBITING

THE GENERAL AND PRIMARY EFFECTS OF THE THETFORD
SPA-RULES ESSENTIAL TO BE OBSERVED WHILST TAKING
A COURSE OF THE WATERS-AN ACCOUNT OF THE DISEASES
IN WHICH IT WILL MOST PROBABLY BE FOUND EFFICA-
CIOUS-CAUTIONARY HINTS AGAINST THE INDISCRIMINATE
USE OF THIS WATER IN DISEASES TO WHICH IT IS INAP-
PLICABLE, AND TESTIMONIALS OF MEDICAL MEN, SHOWING
THE CURATIVE EFFECTS OF THE SPA IN CERTAIN OBSTI-
NATE AND LINGERING MALADIES;

WITH

OBSERVATIONS ON BATHING,

AND A SKETCH

OF THE

History and Present State of Thetford,

BY FREDRICK ACCUM,

Operative Chemist, Lecturer on Practical Chemistry, on Mine-
ralogy, and on Chemistry applied to the Arts and Manufactures;
Member of the Royal Irish Academy; Fellow of the Linnæan
Society; Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences, and of the
Royal Society of Arts of Berlin, &c. &c.

WITH COPPER PLATES.

London:

SOLD BY T. BOYS, 7, LUDGATE HILL;

AT THE SPA BY THE SUPERINTENDANT; AND BY ALL THE
BOOKSELLERS AT THETFORD, BURY ST. EDMUNDS,

NORWICH, AND DEREHAM.

1819.

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PUBLIC LITRY

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From the Press of C. Green, 15, Leicester Street, Leicester Square, London.