Medical text 1822, with Clare subscribers

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This medical guide, touting the many uses and aspects of water, has both entertainment and genealogical value. A list of subscribers which starts on page 91 has the names of several Clare physicians and members of the gentry. The attachment is the portion of the title page that appears below the title.

The medical mentor, and new guide to fashionable watering places
by Francis Frederick Hayd'n, 1822

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[posted by Sharon Carberry

[Polycarp]

Pages 57 to 68 of Hayd'n contain wonderful topographical descriptions of the area around Ennistymon and Lahinch and the Cliffs of Moher with lots of interesting local references and mention of local gentry and clergy. The particular point of interest for Hayd'n is the Kilcornan spa ("Though this Spa had been long known to exist, and was made use of by the Country People for a variety of diseases, it was very little resorted till the summer of 1820 ... "). This spa near Ennistymon was in use well before the more famous and later spa at Lisdoonvarna.

Hayd'n describes Ennistymon at this time as a town "which consists of one range of excellent buildings, and a few bye streets, rapidly improving of late years. In addition to the Church and Chapel, there is also a very neat Session-house, newly built, where the votaries of Thalia occasionally afford a choice diversity of amusement during the bathing season, highly gratifying to the lovers of the Drama". [Thalia was one of the muses, associated with rural pursuits.]