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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 45

Ovalau, November 26, 1875

Ovalau,

Esteemed Sir,—You were good enough to invite the Captain and Officers of H.I.M.s. "Gazelle" to a visit to your Waiwera (Hot Springs), and, in conveying to you their thanks for the very great kindness and hospitality you shewed them during their stay there, I take this opportunity, in the interest of suffering mankind, to describe to you the impression which not only the visit to, and use of the Springs, but also conversation with the various patients, have produced upon me.

The Waiwera (Hot Springs) combine all the advantages of a climatic sanitarium, and possess an efficacious therapeutical degree of heat equal to that of blood heat. The communication with town is easy and comfortable; bodily comforts are provided by a well-kept Hotel and a well-furnished table. The locality is page 28 protected on nearly every side by wooded mountain ranges, and the surrounding country rich in natural beauties, with a glorious view of the sea.

According to an analysis now before me, the Springs abound in salts, which, according to their relations to the chief factors of circulation of the blood and bodily reorganization, as well as their experimentally and empirically proved effects, are apt to produce in their very composition an effect at once regulating, tonical, and purgative, and capable of re-establishing the normal condition of the human organization which may have been disturbed by internal or external influences, and to invigorate its stability. It is a very happy combination of a number of heretogeneous factors, such as locality, climate, medicinal qualities, and temperature of the waters, which makes the Waiwera (Hot Springs) worthy of every consideration in the widest circles, and vouchsafes to them an important future. It is not my intention, nor am I in a position to lay down special instructions and directions about using the baths and the waters; careful examination and observations would be necessary to do that; but this much is certain, that a brief and proper use of the Baths as well as the Springs, under careful observations of indications, will produce the most salutary effects in a great number of diseases of the more important organs and their consequent weaknesses, but more especially in rheumatic and arthritic complaints of all sorts.

Accept the assurance of my very highest appreciation and esteem, with which I have the honor to remain, yours,

Huesker, M.D.

Assistant-Surgeon H.I.M.s. "Gazelle."

To Robert Graham, Esq.,

Auckland.