Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Mineral Waters and Spas of New Zealand
With the constant advance of knowledge, and the consequent incessant recrystallization of our ideas, the medical world is embarrassed with an ever-increasing flood of literature. So great is this flood that one feels that some very good excuse indeed is needed before one adds even a single drop to the ocean of verbiage. There can be only two excuses - either something new can be told, or something old can be put more clearly than it has been put before. I hold myself especially fortunate in that, to a great extent, I can avail myself of the former pretext and can claim the privileges of the pioneer. Beyond a small pamphlet by Dr. Ginders, published some fifteen years ago, dealing with the waters of Rotorua and Hanmer before those spas were to any extent developed, there has been, so far as I am aware, no work dealing with the mineral waters of New Zealand from a medical point of view. In 1902 I was engaged by the Government of New Zea land to advise in the development of the mineral-water health resorts of the country, and this has been my work ever since. 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.
