An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas.

Charles Lucas

Date:: 1757

Credit: An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$t -19 ] der each denomination, and in a line with the wa¬ ter fet down in the firft column, the obfervations on the experiment, the ufes of the water, or the like, are fet down, with intent to fhew the comparative analyfis of feveral waters, at one contracted view. This, well executed, has it’s ufe; as it is a com¬ pendium of the experiments and obfervations made on the waters. But let ys fee how the do5!or has preceded in his tables: I muft confefs, in a methodintirely new \ for there is not a fingle table completed in any thing, but the lines and form, throughout the whole book. To begin with the firft marked (AA) in¬ tituled, Experiments in concert on fourty three feve¬ ral fpecimens, for the mofi part fprings of foft water, rain, and fnow. Now to fhew how thefe experi¬ ments in concert are carried on under their refpec- tive heads, which are, i. hydrometre, 2. fope and alcalies, 3. folution of filver, 4. folution of lead, 5. folution of alum, 6. lime water, 7. acids, 8. fiefh, 9. firup of violets, 10. galls, 11. fumach, 12. log¬ wood, 13. rhubarb, 14. afh-bark, 15. tea, 16. quantity of folid contents, 17. quality of the con¬ tents, 18. ufes. The firft water fet down as ex¬ amined in concert is that of Combe : but it’s range under all the heads, except one, contents, is every where left blank. The fecond, Black Glyn water, has the fpace under three heads filled thus, lathered without curds, Gr. 5. marine fait, nitre and a little calcarious earth ; and out of ten waters fet down, there are not two, on which there are more than three experiments fet down out of eighteen. Whence, out of 180 fpaces made for recording the experiments in concert in this table, there are but 42 filled, fo that there are 138 left blank. Thus the do51 or means his tables Jbould throw light upon the fubjecl! See the advantages of examining wa¬ ters in concerto ! Who can deny his method's being intirely new ? Let no man imagine our Doffor a dull, D 2 Dutch$