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

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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$I [ 67 ] pofed the a<flual exiftenceof unflaked Lime. But how is this Lime to be produced with- out adual fire, and how are thefe Waters to be impregnated, where there are no Volca- nos ? Befides Lime once flaked, could neither heat, nor impregnate any more. Others accounted for the Heat of Wa- ters, from the exhalation of certain Acid fpirits, adlingupon bodies of different forts. —But there never was found, in Nature, any other Acid, excepting that of Vitriol, and this never in fo liquid a ftate, as to mix with water fo as to occafion heat. Berger and Lister were the firft who afl^erted that the Pyrite was the caufe of Meat \n Waters; Dr. Fred. Hoffman l^as adopted their dodlrine, and fo has Dr. Lucas. This Mineral, was known to the Greeks by the name of ajOo? nu.-jT£f, to the Latins, by the name of Lapis Pyrites, and to the Ara- bians, by the Name of Marchajita, which latter is retained in moft modern Languages The$