Who Prescribed Brighton's Sea Water As A Tonic?

During the mid-18th century (that is, during the 1740's and the 1750's), there was a doctor called Dr. Richard Russell in Lewes. Dr. Russell was born in 1687 and began his medical practice in Lewes in 1725. He was the advocate of the water cure, and began to prescribe the medicinal properties of the seawater at Brighton to his patients, which cured them of their ailments.

People suffering from various ailments, especially those of the glands, began to experience the long-term benefits of Dr. Russell's water therapy when they drank or immersed themselves in the seawater at Brighton.

Dr. Russell built a house in Brighton in 1753, six years before his death at the age of 72. Lewes is a town in the district of East Sussex in the southeast of England. Lewes is the county town (the administrative centre or the seat of the local government) of East Sussex.