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

  • Dobson, Matthew, -1784.
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Air. I do not know in what quantity the Selters water is taken; but if it be drank as largely as the Carlfbad water, about 150 grains, or two drachms and a half of the alkaline falt will be the daily dofe, 1f we of a pint contents. Milk appears to be commonly joined with Selters * water in diforders of the kidneys, the milk of affes efpecially ; and fpices + and other aro- matics are alfo occafionally combined with in the prefent work. Dr. Nooth, a gentleman whofe know- as in medicine, are well known, fuggefted to me the probability that the alkaline falt, faturated with Fixible Air, and cryftallized, | might pariter ex variis a me obfervatis phanomenis evictum effe credo, eundem inftar omnium aquarum falubrium inaximeque acidularum, puriffimo illo volatili et mi- nerali {piritu efle imbutum.» Ibid. § VI. Cap. II. Nec dubitare ampliuslicet, quin eidem {pirituofo mi- nerali ingredienti, falubris harum aquarum facultas quoad maximam partem tribuenda eft. Ibid. § 1X. Cap. Il. * Ibidem, § XI. XII. XIU. XIV. + Ibidem, § XTX. ay ee