A treatise on the nature, properties, and medicinal uses of the waters of Pyrmont, Spa, and Seltzers : Also of the Malvern waters, from Dr. Wall's observations. Being a proper supplement to Dr. Russel's [sic] Dissertation on the use of sea water, &c.

Date:
1762
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Credit: A treatise on the nature, properties, and medicinal uses of the waters of Pyrmont, Spa, and Seltzers : Also of the Malvern waters, from Dr. Wall's observations. Being a proper supplement to Dr. Russel's [sic] Dissertation on the use of sea water, &c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and our ordinary EngUJh and Irijh Chalybe- ates5 P fball, after defcribing its fenfible Qua- ljties5 and {hewing its fuperior Strength, relate the Experiments made on it in common, with other Chalybeate Waters. By the Smell, we dis¬ cover in the Wells a fulphureous Vapour, which makes the Water-Servers giddy,. and it is from this, that Fifh, Frogs, Dudes, and Goilings* when thrown into thefe Wells, grow giddy, lofe their Strength, and at laft fall down. This is alio what affe£is Mankind on drinking it, with a kind of Intoxication or Drunkennefs, and is pro¬ bably owing to the Acid of Sulphur, greatly fub- iilized, They alfo abound wirh Air, or an elaf- tic Vapour, more than the common Acidules, whence, when they are to be tranfported to dis¬ tant Places, the Bottles mu ft be not only not quite filled, but left open fome Hours, left they burft ; and moreover, they fhould be kept fome Time before they are drank. I obferved the rifing of tne Bubbles, confequent upon pouring it out into a Glaft, from a well-corktd Bottle, to continue «ight Hours, when the like Bubbles from bottled Ale, did not continue above four Hours. It is of a Tafte, firft Acid, like Wine, pungent and re- frefhing, afterwards auftere and like Vitriol. It is exquifitely lyrnpid, notwithftanding the largo Proportion of Contents it yields. The Water is obferved to fuffer no Change as to Strength, by wet or dry Weather, and is, indeed one of (if not abfolutely) the richeft of all Chalybeates ; as appears, i. By the great Quantity of ochreous Sediment it yields. 2, By the redder Colour of the fame. 3. It retained its vitriolic Tafte, when it had been expofed three Days in a wide-mouthed Glafs, nor did it quite lofe it in fix Days* nor the