Directions for impregnating water with fixed air : in order to communicate to it the peculiar spirit and virtues of Pyrmont water, and other mineral waters of a similar nature / By Joseph Priestley.

  • Joseph Priestley
Date:
1772
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Credit: Directions for impregnating water with fixed air : in order to communicate to it the peculiar spirit and virtues of Pyrmont water, and other mineral waters of a similar nature / By Joseph Priestley. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    » drops of ^Tindlura Martis cum Jpiritu falls niuft be mixed with every pint of it. It is agreed, however, on all hands, that the peculiar virtues ot Pyrmont, or any other mineral water which has the fame brilk or acidulous tafle, depend not upon its being a chalybeate, but upon the fixed air which it contains. But water impregnated with fixed air does of itfelfdi Solve iron, as the ingenious Mr. Lane has difcovered; and iron filings put to this medicated water make a ftrong and agreeable chalybeate, fimilar to fome other natural chalybeates, which hold the iron in folution by means of fixed air only, and not by means of any acid; and thefe chalybeates, I am informed,, are generally the mo ft agreeable to the ftomach. . o 20. By this procefs may fixed air be given to wine, beer, and almoft any liquor what¬ ever : and when beer is become flat or dead, it will be revived by this means; but the delicate agreeable flavour, or acidulous tafte communicated by the fixed air, and which is manifeft in water, will hardly be perceived
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