of these weaker waters, whom no persuasion could induce to swallow doses of the Stronger Sulphur Springs; and I am quite of opinion that compulsion with reference to them always does more harm than good. At the risk of incurring the charge of travelling out of my way, I shall make a few practical remarks on the medical treatment of children, trusting for my excuse to the great importance of the subject. Every one knows that the average mortality among children is truly appalling-by far the majority of the human race being cut down ere it arrives at maturity. Admitting to the fullest extent the pernicious habits and practices of parents in large towns-the influence of narcotics-impure air-neglect of cleanliness and other causes, I am convinced that the mortality is much enhanced by the discipline these tender creatures are compelled to undergo in the medical treatment of their diseases. This observation cannot be construed into any reproach of my medical brethren, because they treat their own offspring upon exactly the same harsh principles, and bury them in the like proportion as others.

We know next to nothing of the complaints of children-they cannot explain the seat or character of their pain-we see them languish and

droop-we observe their secretions disorderedtheir playfulness gone-their appetite lost and thirst and fever supervene. Then there are those complaints which all children must at some time or other undergo; such as measles, scarlet fever, hooping cough, and the like-and, in our anxiety to remedy or alleviate all these diseases, we employ from the medical armoury those weapons which our theories and educational books have taught us to wield. Here are some of the weapons -cutting the jugular vein-leeches-calomeljalap-scammony-cold neutral salts-ipecacuan -tartar emetic-blisters-turpentine, &c., and of these the drug portion is often crammed down the little creature's throat by sheer brute force. Under these circumstances the struggle is generally short, but decisive-the poor child has no refuge but death, and it dies accordingly.

In all complaints of children their secretions should be carefully watched, and corrected if necessary by the very simplest and mildest remedies, such as a little rhubarb, magnesia, small doses of mercury with chalk, and the like-and, if even these gentle means cannot be employed without resorting to personal violence, the case had better be left to nature-who is a much better medical

practitioner than she is generally supposed to be. At all events I speak the results of long attentive observation, and of above twenty years personal experience when I state my opinion-nay, my conviction-that children cannot bear what is called "active medical treatment," and that every parent and every medical man should have constantly present to their minds the fact, that they cannot bear up against frequent, and continued purges, and that if they be subjected to them, no matter on what pretence, they will most assuredly die.

With these remarks, we may return to the very few observations which we have to make in reference to the waters under consideration, and which will occur, indeed almost as readily to the intelligent reader as to the writer.

They may be alternated with the strong sulphur springs, as may be agreeable—and they will be useful as far as their power and efficacy go in the same complaints.

As baths they will be very advantageous where the particular nature of the complaint may render the stronger water unnecessary, or too stimulant, which is frequently the case; and, in drinking them, there need be little other limit than the thirst or sensations of the patient, as no incon

venience can be experienced from an overdose. I consider these milder waters a most useful and desirable addition to the medical resources of Harrogate, and of great utility in the treatment of a very large class of slighter chronic ailments with which we could not otherwise so easily have combated.

THE CHALYBEATE WATER.

In transferring our attention from the Sulphurous to the pure Chalybeate springs of Harrogate, we cannot but be struck with surprise, that two medical waters so powerful in their kind, and so opposite in their character, should be found so near to each other. The former is, as has been stated, evacuant and relaxant; the latter is tonic and astringent in its operation. The former is applicable to diseases of plethora and increased action; the latter is available in cases of direct debility, and deficient action. As most of the chronic ailments to which the human body is liable, can be referred to the one or the other of these conditions; so has the bountiful and merciful Creator furnished us, by the hand of nature, with the means of alleviating both.

This water is supplied in great abundance by two springs on the Common at High Harrogate the one called "the Old or Sweet Spa," the other "the Tewit Well" from the circumstance of the