The Hillsborough recorder. [volume] (Hillsborough, N.C.) 1820-1879, 1854-08-02
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CLUSTER SPRINGS,
HALIFAX COUNTY, VIRGINIA.

HALL FAN COUNTY, VIRGINIA..
DIR. II. EAsLEY, PROPRIETOR.
YNHE following Is q COPY Of letter fiom DR..
= 4. II. Jordan, Of Person county, N. G., 10
The Proprietor Of these celebrated Springs, which
nature in lis beauty has clustered together in one
locality;
Person County, y. C., Aug.ils, 1852.
DR. EAsLrr-DKAH SIN; Being requested 10
give you concise statement of,my views Of the
medical properties Of your Springs avail .mysclf
81 the earliest opportunity in my power 10 do 50.
As you ave well aware, my acquaintance with
those Springs isce-exisienl with my earliest recol
lection, having been born and raisedin their inn
mediate neighborhood. Il is not my intention in
this place TO say any thing about their chemical
combinations; that has been confded 10 other
and ahler hands, and, no doubt, from the acknow-
lodged scientific character Of the gentlemen who
made the analysis, hut that il has been correctly
reported. Nor is il deemed essential that should
do 80. Those who seek health in mineral waters,
would greatly prefer hearing Of cures effected 10
hearing OF auantiiiye proportions, though they
might be accurately ascerisined by chemical am
aysis. The adaptation to particular forms of dis
ease, which careful and enlightened experience
has confirmed, is the most natural inquiry of the
affected. This, far as my own obsel walton and
experience extend, Il s.my purpose to ansn CT in
ss concise manner as possible.
| For six and twenty years, as medical obser-
yer, have known something Of the effects Of
these waters on diseases Of different character;
and i risk nothing in Saying that for the number
oi those who have gone there for health, the re-
suits have been rs satisfactory as OF any ,olher
watering place in Virginia. Many years ago,
sswheE was boy,) aud long before any one
over thought of improving the place, 1t was the
resort of the Standardization from evory section of
Halifax and some the adjoining counties. and
can safely say ] never knew case Of broken
down consultation that tenied'' summer these,
that was not greatly benefited f not entirely our
cd. have known number Of persons who were
carried there in wagons, unable to walk, or even
SIT up on their arrival, speedily restored TO health,
able In month or two to walk up and down those
hills with as much alacrity as you OF could do
il. These things have seen and known, for my
fathers hause was sometimes boaSding house
for those who preferred house in the neighbour
hood to tenting on the ground. Frem some pro-
fessional experience can safely recommend il
in dyspepsia. II is the best anlacid ever knew.
Food cannot, by possibility, sour on a stomach
1
is invaluable in those chronic arrangements of
the liver depending on gastric irritation. Iorpor
and inactivity of this important organ are speed
lily relieved by it. Chronic affections Of the kid
neys and bladder often efiectually cured by it.
One of the worst cases Of chronic Inflammation Of
the internal coat Of the bladder lever saw, which
] sen, there, was promptly cured by few weeks
use ofthe water. Chronic rheumatism is as often
cured by Il as by any other known agent. Aifec-
tons Of the uterine system are often cured by il.
One case might menian Of peculiar interest,
with which you are acquainted. II has mide
and long appreciated reputation in cutaneens dis
cases.
The Chdybeate Springs, though recently
brought into notice, was known in my scAool-
boy days, and well remember the supersi,ious
horror we had on approaching il. II is an aglee-
able chalybeate, none can be found more pleasant
or agreeable 10 the taste, or more desirable in
those diseases which demand the use of iron.
There is a singular arrangement of natures
laws in the phenomenon Of your location. Sui
phur, Chalybcatc, and Lime Water, aH Gushing
out Of the same hill in few hundred feet Of each
other, while on other side Of the ril, and in i'm.
mediate proximity to each, is as pure frees stone
spring as any one may ever desire TO drink.
Having said this much, must now conclude,
least might be accused (should You ever con-
cude TO bring this hasiy letter to light) Of dis.
position to puff your Springs. This accusation,
however, would be dscredIied by those best &C.
quaintcd with me; for they know me to he man
of quite different character. In justice 10 you
as an enterprising, accommodating proprietor,
could not have said less. will, in conclusion,
append the following synopsis Of such diseases as
experience and observation have proved the wa.
tiers to be adapted to: liver, stomach, bladder,
kidney, bronchial and uterine affections; dropsy,
rheumatism, and cutaneous affections; prostrated
or lily cured cases of rcmittent and intermittent
fevers; chronic affections Of the bowels have ge-
Morally been relieved by their use.
Should you, my dear sic, ever use this in any
public way, and should il prove to have mitigat.
ei one single pang Of human suffering shall be
abundantly paid for the little labor il has cost me
il Yours, sincerely, &. H. JORDAN.
i Halifax County, Va, Aug. 81, 1852.
We the undersigned physicians, having reac
DR.. Jordans letter on the use of Dr.. Essley's Min
eral Water, cheerfully add our testimony to wha
/. he has said of their medical uses
WIN. w. CARRINGTON, M. ID.
WM; B. JENNINGS, NJ. d,