Galen,  nothing  daunted,  quoted  other  places  as  superior;
but  his  vehemence  diminishing  in  tlio  ratio  of  the
doctor's  eloquent  confidence,  he  gradually  died  out,
leaving  the  doctor  the  undisputed  champion  of  a  water
capable  of  cui-ing  every  disease  under  the  sun.  Parlia-
ment being  up,  and  news  scarce,  the  doctor  contrived,
through  the  medium  of  a  brother,  a  selector  of  shocking
accidents,  to  get  sundry  extracts  inserted  in  a  morning
paper,  from  whence  the  evening  ones  gladly  trans-
planting tliem,  and  the  country  ones  rehashing  them  for
tlieir  Saturday  customers,  the  name  of  the  waters,  and
the  fame  of  the  doctoi-,  spread  throughout  the  land,  and
caused  a  wonderful  sensation  in  his  favour.
The  effects  were  soon  felt,  for  lodgings  and  houses
were  \vritten  for  from  all  parts,  and  as  a  crowning  piece
of  luck  a  railway  was  just  then  opened  out  to  Silverley,
some  twenty  miles  bey<md,  for  the  purpose  of  supplying
London  with  lily-white  sand,  which  was  soon  converted
into  a  paasenger  line,  with  a  station  for  our  rising  Spa.
