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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    perceived in wine, or other liquors which have much tafte of their own. - v 21. I would not interfere with the pro« vince of the phyfician, but I cannot intire- ]y fatisfy myfelf without taking this oppor¬ tunity to fuggeft fuch hints as have oc¬ curred to myfelf, or my friends, with re- fpedl to the medicinal ufes of water impreg¬ nated with fixed air ; and alfo of fixed air in other applications. # In general, the difeafes in which water impregnated with fixed air will mcft pro¬ bably be ferviceable, are thofe of a putrid nature, of which kind is the fea-fcurvy, It can hardly be doubted, alfo, but that this water mu ft have all the medicinal virtues of Pyrmont water, and fome other mineral waters fimilar to it, whatever they be ; efpecially if a few iron filings be put to it, to render it a chalybeate, like genuine Pyrmont water. It is poffible, however, that, in fome cafes, it may be defirable to have the fixed air of Pyrmont water, with¬ out the iron which it contains. / . Having