Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone.

  • Johnstone, James, 1730-1802.
Date:
[1787?]
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Credit: Some account of the Walton water near Tewkesbury ; with thoughts on the use and diseases of the lymphatic glands, in a letter ... / by James Johnstone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

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    which alfo difcovers itfelf in this Water, by its characteriftic Sulphureous fmell. This often is produced by putrifyiug Vegetables. Bilhop Watfon, obferves, that Sulphureous Waters are produced in Morafles and Bogs, from rotten Wood ; that Shale, a ftone fo called, of which there is a Stratum, extended all over the Country about Harrowgate, and from which the Sulphur Springs there arife, contains both Vitriolic Acid $md Phlogifton, the conftituent parts of Sulphur; and fome pieces of Shale, when calcined properly, have been found to communicate.the Sulphureous impregnation to Water, Ph. Tra'nf. 1736. It is fufficient to obferve, that Walton Water emerges from a bed of done, probably fimilar to this, and that the Soil abounds with the remains of rotten Vegetables refolved into it, and, that, from one or both thefe fources, it derives the Hepktic Gas perceived in it. ’• » 1 • » ( • • • . T % * • 4. After Walton Water has been drawn from the Pump ten or twelve hours; it no longer becomes purple or blackifh, by the addition of aflringents, (No. II.) and a pre- cipitation with Lime Water, does not imme- diately enfue, (No. I.) i, ' Iii •» Iv./ . . . 5. Its Colour neither becomes Green nor Red, with Syrrup of Violets. 6. It