Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1841 edition. Excerpt: ... 606 chapter xiv. southend. hockley spa. Southend under Medical Protection--New Attraction--Discoveiit of a Mineral Spring near it--Hocrley Village--How to find it oat--Road and Principal Towns--Favourable View of Essex--Raleigh--Pretty Approach--Hockley Spa Lodge--History of the'Discovery--The First Case of Cure--Practical Reputation--Analysis by Phillips--Mjr Visit--Examination of the Water--Physical and Chemical Characters--Taste and Effect of the Water--Complaints in which it will be useful--Quantity to be drank--Excellent in Weakness of Bones--Striring Recovery--Favourable Position of Hockley--ImproveMents suggested--How to make it into a Spa--Character of its Climate--Beautiful Scenery Around it--Drive to Southend--The Kino's Arms--First View--Old Southend--Hope Hotel--The Shore, The Jetty and the Mount--The Cliff--Terrace--Hanging Gardens--The Royal Hotel--Sea Bathing--Expenses of Living--Lodging--Preferable Houses. The fact that a physician of eminence in London, author of several valuable works, and one of my oldest friends, had, during two summer seasons lodged his numerous family by the sea-side at Southend, after having in previous years tried the effect of the Isle of Wight, Broadstairs, and Ramsgate, none of which he had found useful to them, led me to pay a visit to that home sea-side place. Its location in a country having so bad a name with invalids, was not otherwise likely to have tempted me to such a step: the less so as I had made up my mind to terminate my tour of the English Coasts at Dover, leaving the cockneyBed watering-places of the Isle of Thanet to their own well and familiarly known merits and recent improvements. Southend too presented a farther attraction in the circumstance of a new mineral spring having...
