On the medicinal springs of Harrogate / by George Kennion.

Date:
[1845]
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Credit: On the medicinal springs of Harrogate / by George Kennion. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.

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    ON THE MEDICINAL SPRINGS OP HARROGATE. By George Kennxon, M.D. Formerly Physician to the Harrogate Bath Hospital. (Read before tbe Anniversary Meeting of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, at Sheffield, Thursday, July 31, 1845.) [The following remarks are reprinted, with some alterations, from the Provincial Medical and Surgical Journal, and are put into the present form for private circulation, at the request of many of the Author’s Professional friends.] Harrogate has long been celebrated for its medicinal springs. The first of these, which was brought into notice nearly three centuries ago, was a chalybeate water. Soon afterwards the old sulphureous water was discovered; and since that time, and especially within the last thirty years, the number of import- ant springs which have come into notice has greatly increased. The village or town of Harrogate is popularly divided into two parts, which are termed High and Low Harrogate. The greater part of what is called High Harrogate is built upon a high table land, which is elevated 320 feet above the level of the sea, and commands a magnificent and extensive view all around; while Lower Harrogate is situated in a basin, which is bounded on the south and east sides by the High Harrogate hill, and on the west by the Harlow hill. The upper stratum of the soil is sandstone; below this is a bed of shale, (in some places of considerable depth,) and below this again is the carboniferous limestone. ^The air of Harrogate is peculiarly pure and bracing, and, as is commonly remarked, possesses