Short, Thomas; The Natural Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, particularly those of Scarborough. Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divid

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Short, Thomas; The Natural Experimental, and Medicinal History of the Mineral Waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire, particularly those of Scarborough. Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shewn and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations. Together with the natural history of the Earths, Minerals, and Fossils through which the Chief of them Pass ... London: For the Author, by F. Gayles, 1734. & An essay towards a natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the principle mineral waters of Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmoreland, ... To which is added, a short discourse on cold and tepid bathing, and a table of the temperature ... Being the second volume of The Mineral Waters. Sheffield: For the Author, by John Garnet, 1740. Quarto, pp. 20, xxii, 359, 3, 4 folded engraved plates, 1 single page plate. & pp. 12, xix, 330, 2.

The two works are related and usually found bound together with the work being considered by the author to be in two parts. Bound in a later calf and marbled boards with gilt spine panels and titles. The binding is near fine. The text and plates are clean and bright. In very good condition.

Short (1690-1772) was a Scottish physician who established his practice in Sheffield and master of Gronville and Carius Colleges at Cambridge. He visited several warm and cold mineral springs from Carlisle to Oxford and wrote the two part work on those mineral springs. The work was sponsored by the Royal Society and was a massive compilation on every topic related to the springs. Short was considered to be the authority on the medicinal uses and analysis of the waters. The plates show crystals of the salts and other minerals found in 34 of the waters.