Volume 1

An account of the nature and medicinal virtues of the principal mineral waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and those most in repute on the Continent. To which are prefixed directions for impregnating water with fixed air ... extracted from Dr. Priestley's Experiments on air. With an appendix containing a description of Dr. Nooth's apparatus ... And a method of impregnating water with sulphureous air ... / By John Elliot, M.D.

  • Sir John Eliot, 1st Baronet
Date:
1781
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Credit: An account of the nature and medicinal virtues of the principal mineral waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and those most in repute on the Continent. To which are prefixed directions for impregnating water with fixed air ... extracted from Dr. Priestley's Experiments on air. With an appendix containing a description of Dr. Nooth's apparatus ... And a method of impregnating water with sulphureous air ... / By John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    wat Jt Got Bae ln France, The well is near Vahls, in Dauphiny, _ The water has a brifk fubacid tafte at the ipring ; which is loft before it reaches Paris, for it then taftes lalisfhy + It contains the fof] alkali, It is diuretic, and fomewhat purgative ; and is fimilar in virtues to the Seltzer and Clifton waters, though lefs powerful, N. B. Near to this is another {pring, called La Marie, but weaker, | WAR D ROE W, In Northumberland, It is fituated between Cumberland and Northumberland, on the banks of the river Arden. It is the moi cold fulphureous water in the three northern counties. It contains alfo fea falt, and therefore refembles in vir- tues the flarrogate water. Q It ins,