The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland.

  • Sutherland, Alexander, -1773
Date:
1788
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Credit: The nature and qualities of Bristol water : illustrated by experiments and observations, with practical reflections on Bath waters, occasionally interspersed / by A. Sutherland. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 3° ] In the fame page, he tells us, 'The dif- ficulty of deterftiining the effeSts of mineral to Waters a priori is little elfe than injuperable to human Vnderfianding'' And yet, inabreath, he promifes a Medical Hiftory j a Catalogue of thofe DifeafeSy which they are fuppofed to hit; and laflly, he propofes to examine their Properties, fo far as they are difcover-^ able by Experiments. What is all this, but deterinining a priori, a talk infuperable to >6«- man underjlanding ? Page 3 i, Our Enquirer proceeds to call them in one place cooli?2g2Lnd drying, in ano- ther w^^^'^cvz;;;^ and cooling; quenching thirjl-, creating appetite; giving Flejh; and increaf- ingjlrength : In the fame page, he fays, as to the fenfible effeBs of it, on healthy bodies^ they are hardly obfervable. In the very fame fentence, and without the interruption of a point, he proceeds thus,—it generally creates appetite, provokes a limpid urine, is apt to get up into the head, as aljo to hind the body ; and, if taken in too great a quantity chills