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Excerpt from The Salt Sulphur Springs, Monroe County, Va Were I disposed to enter into a detailed account of the intro duction of mineral waters as therapeutic agents into the science of medicine, there would be no lack of interesting materials for the purpose: but the object of this pamphlet being to introduce to the especial notice of the public, a water hitherto but little known, and but rarely appreciated, the occupation of its pages by a History of Mineral Waters, would be foreign to our intention. We shall, therefore, refer all such as take an interest in the sub ject, to the writings of Patissier, Bourdon, Franceschi, and John Bell, in which they will find that princes and beggars, poets and historians, doctors and quacks, have from time to time stood forth in their behalff' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.