The development of scarborough spa

Dr. Robert Wittie of York came often and wrote books to publicise the waters. He reported cures for "melancholic vapours, nightmares, apoplexy,catalepsie, epilepsie, vertigo, nerves,yellow and black jaundice". Where the sick went for waters,the healthy followed. The waters "nimbly purging" offered them equal benefits. "Obstructions were pierced,humours evaporated, melancholy and windiness relieved,weight lost ,blood purified, the stomach cleansed, lungs opened" and "pregnancy fostered", or so it was claimed .A languishing clergyman drank deep and became a cheerful man.

By 1667, "people of good fashion" were coming to Scarborough. The sick and the healthy alike consulted the doctor on their first day. He advised a stay of four to five weeks, between mid-May and mid-September, with daily drinkings of five to eight pints of water, early in the morning. After two half pints between six and seven,you walked the sands for half an hour. Pints of water and walks continued half hourly till about ten o-clock, followed by "innocentre creations". After dinner ,you exercised on foot,on a horse or in a springless carriage.

OTHER ARTICLES
• The history of the Scarborough Spa pump rooms
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• William Cammish - log book of the Aurora - a Scarborough merchant ship
• The Borough of Scarborough formed in the 12th Century
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• The early years of the Scarborough Lifeboat
• When the Colliers came to Scarborough
• Fighting the Scots in Scarborough Waters in the early 16th century. John Rushton
• The need for canals in the scarborough area - discussions in the late 1700's
• Sea bathing was pioneered at Scarborough in the late 17th century.
• Hinderwells account of the first launch of the Scarborough Lifeboat in 1802
• Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders
• Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough
• Stories of human interest from the sea port of Scarborough
• Seabathing in scarborough - an article by John Rushton
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks

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