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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    CHAPTER ir. ON THE FOREIGN CONTENTS OF MINERAL WATERS. ATTEMPTS to fubjed to analyfis the various mineral fprings, muft foon have fol- lowed their introdudion. into medicine, ef- pecially thofe that poflefled any remarkable fenfible properties; and accordingly, many very eminent chemifts have directed their attention to this obje£t. Here, however, a very great difficulty prefented itfelf to the chemifts of every time, down to the period immediately preceding the introduction of •the modern fyftem of chemiftry, which was the great volatility of the moft adive con- tents in many of the moft curious and power- ful waters, which efcaped in the ftate of gas, during the evaporation neceflary to ex- hibit in a folid form the faline and earthy particles that were held in folution. The efcape of thefe gafes could not but be no- ticed; and even fomc of their chemical pro- perties, as that of acidity in fixed air, and the fulphureous nature of hepatic air; and