Dr Bowen Davies
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Dr William Bowen Davies

Dr Bowen Davies oedd y meddyg preswyl cyntaf yn Llandrindod, cyrhaeddodd yn 1872. Cafodd ei eni yn Llanymddyfri yn 1847 a chafodd ei addysgu yng Ngholeg Llanymddyfri ac Ysbyty St Batholemew. Cychwynnodd ei yrfa mewn meddyginiaeth fel swyddog meddygol mewn Ysbyty Cyffredinol yn Jersey. Yn 1876 adeiladodd dy o'r enw Brynarlais yn 'Temple Street'. Dyma'r feddygfa gyntaf yn y dref a ddaeth yn ddiweddarach yn Neuadd y Dref. Bellach Canolfan Croeso'r dref ydyw; y groto yw lle'r oedd ystafell wydr Dr Bowen Davies ar un adeg.

Frynarlais. Dyma gartref a meddygfa Dr Bowen Davies
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Dyma ddarn o arweinlyfr o amgylch Llandrindod sy'n dyddio yn ôl i tua 1890, lle mae Dr Bowen Davies yn canmol rhinweddau ffynhonnau'r dref:

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CHAPTER IV.
The Mineral Springs at Llandrindod, observated by Dr Bowen Davies, a resident practitioner of twenty years at Llandrindod.

The following very valuable and interesting chapters upon the Saline, Sulphur, and Chalybeate Waters, and upon Diet, have been contributed by Dr. Bowen Davies, Brynarlais, Llandrindod, whose thorough knowledge of the subject, gained by years of special study of the action of minerals waters at home and abroad, and by close and personal attention, and long residence at Llandrindod, will, no doubt, be specially valuable and interesting by all visitors.

"In the earliest ages, mineral waters were known and employed medicinally, both internally and in the form of baths. Homer speaks in his Iliad of tepid and cold springs. Aesculapius (BC 1263), employed them largely; and he and his followers erected their temples of health in the neighbourhood of mineral springs. Hippocrates, Celsus, and Pliny also notice and write of the medicinal properties of mineral waters. They have always been esteemed as curative agents of no mean power, though it has been the fashion to resort more to them at some periods than at others."