Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton.

Date:
1849
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Credit: Bulwer and Forbes on the water-treatment / edited, with additional matter, by Roland S. Houghton. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    THE WATER TREATMENT. BULWER'S LETTER, CONFESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF A WATER PATIENT, IN A LETTER TO THE EDITOR OF THE NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Dear Mr. Editor, I am truly glad to see so worthily filled the presi- dency in one of the many chairs which our republic permits to criticism and letters—a dignity in which I had the honor to precede you, sub consult Planco, in the good days of William IV. I feel as if there were something ghostlike in my momentary return to my ancient haunts, no longer in the editorial robe and purple, but addressing a new chief, and in great part a new assembly : For the reading public is a creature of rapid growth—every five years a fresh generation pours forth from our institutes, our colleges, our schools, demanding and filled with fresh ideas, fresh principles and hopes. And the seas wash the place where Canute parleyed with the waves. All that in- terested the world, when to me (then Mr. Editor, now your humble servant,) contributors addressed their arti- cles, hot and seasoned for the month, and like all good articles to a periodical, warranted not to keep, have passed away into the lumber room, where those old 2