A second treatise on the Bath waters, comprehending their medicinal powers. In general ... / by George Smith Gibbes.

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
1803
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    tion of the air immediately over the baths, in consequence of the immense quantities of azotic gas, which are continually evolved with these waters. I apprehend we have not as yet any good grounds for estimating these things as medicinal agents. It appears, ‘however, from such impregnations that the Bath waters are entitled to a very attentive consideration, both in a physical and medi- cinal point of view. I have endeavoured in the foregoing pages to give a general and particular account, with respect to the latter, of those symptoms of disease wherein much benefit may be expected from their use, and I have attempted to shew where their exhi- bition is contra-indicated. —_— With respect to the physical constitution of these waters much remains to be done. Since the publication of my former treatise, a series of experiments has been discovered, which bids fair to form a new era in the science of chemistry. The experiments to: ‘which [ allude are those which result from the pile of Volta and its several modifica- tions. The matter of heat, electricity and