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Title: Buxton and its Medicinal Waters

Author: Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet

Release Date: December 14, 2009 [eBook #30682]

Language: English

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Transcribed from the 1892 John Heywood edition by David Price, email
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BUXTON
AND ITS
MEDICINAL WATERS.

BY

ROBERT OTTIWELL GIFFORD-BENNET, M.D.,

_Senior Acting Physician to the Devonshire Hospital and_
_Buxton Bath Charity_.

* * * * *

JOHN HEYWOOD,
DEANSGATE AND RIDGEFIELD, MANCHESTER;
2, AMEN CORNER, LONDON, E.C.

PREFACE.

Knowing from long experience the powerful action exerted upon the human
system by the Buxton Medicinal Thermal Water, and the unsatisfactory
results arising from its indiscriminate and incautious use, either in the
form of baths or by taking it internally, I have in the following pages,
as briefly and succinctly as possible, endeavoured to make some practical
suggestions for the guidance of those of my professional brethren who
have had no opportunity of becoming personally acquainted with the Buxton
Spa, with the hope that they may prove of service.

R. O. G. B.

Tankerville House,
Buxton, May, 1892.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.
TOPOGRAPHICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.
PAGE
Situation--Altitude--Geology--Roman Baths--Climate and 9
Temperature--Death Rate--Water Supply--Rainfall
Drainage--Railway Communication--Public
Buildings--Devonshire Hospital and Buxton Bath
Charity--Visitors' Accommodation--Antiquarian