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I am writing this little work on exactly the
same lines as I did a similar one on the Mineral Waters of
Leamington.
I thank Mr Symons, FRS., the author of British
Rainfall, for lending me his books, so as to enable me
to compile a table of statistics for the last ten years; also Mr
Turner-Taylor, the Town Clerk of Harrogate, for information
with reference to the death rate. I likewise owe a debt of
gratitude to Mr G. Paul, of Harrogate, for his able assistance in
the geological and climatological part of the work.
I have arranged a table of the mineral waters
of Harrogate for comparison with those of Germany and others of
this country, from works of Braun and Martindale, and for the
assistance in compiling this I thank Mr Eynon, chemist, Harrogate.
In the context, wherever specific views are
given upon any subject, I have inscribed the name of the authority
for the same.
Finally, my thanks are due to that
distinguished physician, Dr Mitchell Bruce, an old
fellow-student and a life-long friend, for allowing me to
pick some crumbs from his masterly work on Materia Medica and
Therapeutics.
It is just possible that by the time this
work is in print, what is called "an official analysis"
of the Harrogate waters may be published by the Corporation.
When that is done, I will instruct my
publishers to send a copy of the same to all purchasers of this
work.
The reader, however, may rely upon my new
analysis, which he will find later on in these pages, being, in
every respect, thoroughly trustworthy and accurate.
ASSYNT,
HARROGATE, 1899.
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