THE

HARROGATE

MEDICAL GUIDE;

A POPULAR AND PRACTICAL TREATISE

ON THE

MINERAL WATERS OF HARROGATE,

AND THE

DISEASES IN WHICH THEY ARE USEFUL;

WITH

SUPPLEMENTARY REMARKS ON DIET & EXERCISE;

AND SOME SELECT CASES.

BY ALFRED SMITH,

MEMBER OF THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS OF ENGLAND
SURGEON TO THE RIPON DISPENSARY,

AUTHOR OF "OBSERVATIONS ON THE WATERS OF HARROGATE,'

"Justâ confessione omnes terræ, quoque vires aquarum sunt beneficii. Qua-propter ante omnia ipsarum potentiæ exempla ponemus. Cunctas enim quis mortalium enumerare queat?" PLIN.

"Difficile est, imo haud possibile, tritâ ab aliis viâ sic ingredi, ut in eorum vestigia nunquam incurras." SANADON.

SECOND EDITION.

LONDON:

SIMPKIN AND MARSHALL; HARRISON, RIPON; PALLISER, HIGH HARROGATE; MESSRS. HARGROVES, YORK; AND BAINES AND NEWSOME, LEEDS.

MDCCCXLVII.

ENTERED AT STATIONERS' HALL.

TO ROBERT PALEY, ESQUIRE, M.D.,

&c., &c.

OF BISHOPTON GRANGE, RIPON.

MY DEAR SIR,

Your permission to dedicate this little work to you affords me an opportunity of expressing my admiration of your high character, worth, and benevolence, both as a Gentleman and a Physician.

In this sentiment all who know you will unanimously and heartily concur.

But I have an additional and personal gratification in thus acknowledging, in the only way in my power, the repeated and important instances of your kindness to me, during an intercourse of several years.

That you may long continue to enjoy, in the bosom of your family, the blessing of health, and the possession of happiness, is the sincere wish of, My dear Sir,

Your faithful and obliged

Friend and Servant,

THE AUTHOR.