A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1805
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Credit: A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    times, but on an average Is eftimated by Haller at nearly three-fourths, or as 90 to 128, or fometimes 103 to 128. Not only the quantity of the refpedive contents varies, but probably the ftate of the ingredients, and the circumftances of folution. So it is found, that the proportion of coagulum is greater in robuft high-fed perfons, than in the weakly and ill- fed; and greater in general in the warm, than in the cold blooded animals. The propor- tional quantity of falts has not been fo w^ell afcertained; attention having been rather paid to their fenfible or fuppofed qualities, fuch as thofe of acrimony, alcalefcency, and the like. The circumftances of folution deferve fome notice in a chemical point of view. Of the contents of the blood, fome, fuch as gelly and faline matter, are eafily foluble in water; others, fuch as albumen and gluten, probably with much more difficulty; and the latter is rather fufpended than truly dilTolved, as it coa- gulates when at reft, even in the body, as Mr. Hewfon has obferved, and without diminution of temperature, or expofure to air. This pro- perty, the fame ingenious phyfiologift found to be retarded by the violent adion of circu-