III. A letter to William Heberden, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Society, from Daniel Peter Layard, M.D. Physician to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Societies of London and Gottingen; giving an account of the Somersham

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III. A letter to William Heberden, M.D. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Society, from Daniel Peter Layard, M.D. Physician to her Royal Highness the Princess Dowager of Wales, Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and of the Royal Societies of London and Gottingen; giving an account of the Somersham Water, in the county of Huntingdon; and transmitting a letter from Michael Morris, M.D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians in London, and Physician to the Westminister Hospital, to Dr. Layard, on the same subject. Dear Sir, At last I venture to lay before you the result of those experiments and observations, which I have made on the Somersham water. They were undertaken with your approbation, and pursued through your encouragement. To ascertain the contents of a mineral water, requires a repetition of the analysis; and notwithstanding the experiments have been repeated these fourteen years last past, either at the spring, at Huntingdon, or in London, and the effects of this water carefully observed in the many cases it has been drank, yet I could not before presume to offer you a positive determination, till I was convinced, by the trials of an abler and more competent judge, that I was not mistaken.