But Mr. A - r, who is
here, had found such benefit from drinking the waters, that I was
persuaded to make trial of them for eight or ten days.
I have
accordingly taken private lodgings, and drank them at the
fountain-head, not without finding considerable benefit. In my
next I shall say something further of these waters, though I am
afraid they will not prove a source of much entertainment. It
will be sufficient for me to find them contribute in any degree
to the health of - Dear Sir, Yours assuredly.
LETTER XL
BOULOGNE, May 23, 1765.
DEAR DOCTOR, - I found three English families at Aix, with whom I
could have passed my time very agreeably
but the society is now dissolved. Mr. S - re and his lady left the
place in a few days after we arrived. Mr. A - r and lady Betty are
gone to Geneva; and Mr. G - r with his family remains at Aix. This
gentleman, who laboured under a most dreadful nervous asthma, has
obtained such relief from this climate, that he intends to stay
another year in the place: and Mr. A - r found surprizing benefit
from drinking the waters, for a scorbutical complaint. As I was
incommoded by both these disorders, I could not but in justice to
myself, try the united efforts of the air and the waters;
especially as this consideration was re-inforced by the kind and
pressing exhortations of Mr. A - r and lady Betty, which I could
not in gratitude resist.
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