I was obliged to hold my nose with one hand,
while I advanced the glass to my mouth with the other; and after
I had made shift to swallow it, my stomach could hardly retain
what it had received. -- The only effects it produced were
sickness, griping, and insurmountable disgust. -- I can hardly
mention it without puking. -- The world is strangely misled by the
affectation of singularity. I cannot help suspecting, that this
water owes its reputation in a great measure to its being so
strikingly offensive. -- On the same kind of analogy, a German
doctor has introduced hemlock and other poisons, as specifics,
into the materia medica. -- I am persuaded, that all the cures
ascribed to the Harrigate water, would have been as
efficaciously, and infinitely more agreeably performed, by the
internal and external use of seawater. Sure I am, this last is
much less nauseous to the taste and smell, and much more gentle
in its operation as a purge, as well as more extensive in its
medical qualities.
Two days ago we went across the country to visit 'squire Burdock,
who married a first cousin of my father, an heiress, who brought
him an estate of a thousand a-year.
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