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.

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