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A Dissertation on the JVature and Properties of the Malvern 

 Water, and an Enquiry into the Causes and Treatment of 

 Scrofulous Diseases and Consumption, together with some 

 remarks upon the Influence of the Terrestrial Radiation of 

 Caloric upon local salubrity. By W. Addison, Surgeon, 



Malvern has for a long period been justly celebrated for its 

 pure and invigorating air, the excellence of its water, and the 

 romantic beauty of its scenery. Dr. Wall^ who wrote some 

 years since a small work upon the efficacy of the Malvern 

 Waters in many diseases, speaks highly of the benefits expe- 

 rienced from a residence at Malvern in scrofulous, nephritic, 

 and many other complaints. Mr. Addison's work is scientific 

 and ingenious ; he attributes the many extraordinary recoveries 

 which have occurred at Malvern, partly to the salubrity of the 

 air, and partly to the purity of the water, which, from the analysis 

 he has given of it, seems to contain much less saline or earthy 

 matter than any we are acquainted with ; and we think he has 

 laboured, with considerable success, to prove that the continued 

 use of a pure water may be a powerful means of removing and 

 preventing many chronic disorders ; his views of the causes of 

 scrofulous diseases, — the circumstances which determine their 

 seat or situation, — and the measures calculated to counteract 

 a tendency to them are in our opinion, extremely creditable to 

 his professional ability. The work contains many clear state- 

 ments, with some accurate reasoning, which we can with confi- 

 dence recommend to our readers. The last section treats upon 

 a subject altogether new in medical science, though the facts 

 to which Mr. Addison refers have been long known to the cul- 

 tivators of chemistry. That the radiation of caloric from the 

 earth will have a very great influence in the production of va- 

 rious diseases we are certainly much inclined to admit, and we 

 feel induced also to believe, with our author, that the activity of 

 malaria may very much depend upon this process. The re- 

 marks and observations which Mr. Addison has made upon dis- 

 eases as they appear in tropical climates, certainly furnish a 

 powerful statement in favour of the views he has taken. We 

 earnestly recommend this subject to the profession of which Mr. 

 Addison is a member; the conclusions he has djawn are, that all 

 those places where the radiation of caloric goes on with rapidity, 

 will oe found subject to great vicissitudes of temperature, to 

 fogs, heavy dews, and other noxious precipitations from the air, 

 tvhereby they are rendered cold, damp, and oftentimes extremely 

 unhealthy, while, cseteris paribus, those situations where the 



