222 MINERAL WATERS AND MEDICINAL SPRINGS OF ESSEX.
and inflammatory fevers ; the consumptive ; and the small-pox, upon several
occasion?, with good success."
In June 1740, Dr. John Rutty had a sample of the water
(bottled more than three months earlier) sent to him in Dublin.
After examining it, he wrote95 that he found it
" impregnated with a comparatively-large proportion of salt, approaching, in
most of its properties, to those of the fixed artificial alkalis, but of a less degree
of acrimony and enveloped with an absorbent and ochreous matter which
probably may give it some degree of stypticity."
The third edition of Dr. Andree's pamphlet appeared in 1764.
In it, the author made practically no alterations of importance.
It is clear, however, that the fame of the water had continued
to increase steadily ; for the doctor declared96 that it was needless
for him to insert additional cases,
" since long experience proves that the water retains still the same sanative
properties mentioned at first ; its surest and strongest commendation being that
the Physical Gentlemen of this Town [i.e., London] recommend and order it in
common to their patients for diarrheas, weakness of the bowels, and the other
complaints mentioned in this treatise, and that it is used all over the kingdom,
and also in foreign parts, with great success."
As further evidence that, at this period, the Tilbury water
enjoyed widespread fame, we have Morant's statement,97 in 1768,
that, of all the Essex waters, it alone had kept up its reputation ;
also the "Gentleman's" assertion98 that it "deservedly retains
the highest reputation,"
The fourth edition of Andree's pamphlet, published in 1779,
seems to contain nothing new in regard to the water, except
the statement that Sir Hans Sloane had been "so well con-
vinced of the great efficacy of the Tilbury water that he
frequently recommended it to his patients."
This edition was published, not by a regular "bookseller"
(there were then, of course, no "publishers" in the modern
sense), but by one John Ellison, a chemist, who made a specialty
of dealing in medicinal waters, having "mineral water ware-
houses" in St. Alban's Street, Pali Mall, and near Red Lion
Street, Whitechapel. He describes himself" as "sole pro-
prietor" of the Tilbury Hall water ; by which he meant,
doubtless, that he was the sole agent for the sale of it to the
95 Methodical Synopsis, p. 438 (1757).
96 Op. cit., third ed., p. [6] (1764).
97 Hist. of Essex, i., p. xxv. (1768).
98 Hist. of Essex, i., p. 10 (1770).
99 See a Synopsis of the Medicinal Contents of the most noted Mineral Waters analysed by
Dr. [Bryan] Higgins at the instance of John Ellison, p., 8 (1788).