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.
- James Johnstone
- Date:
- [1787?]
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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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![[ » ] The Salts of the Walton and Cheltenham Waters, are both 'foluble in a very fmall quantity of Water, equal to their weight nearly : And their impreffion on the human fenfes, and, their adtion on the bowels, is the ■fame. In fo many points, the Cheltenham and 'Walton Mineral Waters, are entirely like each other; a pint or lefs of each opens the body; fome find a fmall addition of the Walton, neceffary to produce the fame effect in the fame degree ; others find no dif- ference ; the purgative Salt is fomewhat lefs, about a drachm in a gallon, in my experi- ments ; but the quantity of fixed Air, and :Steel are at leaft equal. The Hepatic Air feems to prevail in the Walton Water, over the Cheltenham, which gives it a moft plea- fing almoft Oleaginous foftnefs, and makes it highly grateful in tafte, and gentle in ope- ration, and, far more fuitable in difeafes of the kidneys, and urinary paffages, than the Chel- tenham Water itfelf. Without, therefore, entering into a farther detail of Chymical refearch, 1 apprehend the fimilarity of the Walton to the Cheltenham ’Water, to be fufficiently afcertained, to war- rant its ufe and application in the difeafes, for which Cheltenham Waters have been ufed with advantage.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21522996_0019.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
