A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    heys, ureters, and bladder from any mat- ter of this kind that may be lodged in them, and tends, not only to prevent the generation of a calculous, or to ftop the increafe of one already formed, but alfo affords the moft defirable relief in the {trangury, and when the urine is voided with pain and difficulty, and is thick and turbid in its appearance. The Selters wa- ter, as well as that of Carlfbad, is Impreg- nated with the * foffil alkali, but in larger proportion, two quarts of the Selters wa- ter containing four fcruples of alkaline falt, whereas the fame quantity of the Carlfbad Water contains no more than three. The alkali however here, as well as in the other; appears to be fully faturated+ with Fixible H 4 Airs | * Selteranarum libras duas medicas fuper leniori igne, quem carbones fubminiftrarunt ardentes, evapo- _ rationi commifimus, et en! materiz albe faline te- nuiffimz, drachmam unam cum duodecim granis ob- tinuimus.—Idem refidaum in aqua liquatum et per chartam colatum bibulam, prebuit lixivium, ex quo, _ Tenioris exhalationis ope, alcalini falis ferupulos duos obtinuimus. Hoffman de Element. et Viribus Fontis Sel- terani, § V. Cap. II. + Sicuti ergo fingula hec experimenta planum at- que teftatum faciunt fontem Selteranum affluentem falis alcalini puri copiam in complexu fuo alere, ita ; . pariter