A free and candid examination of a pamphlet / [by C. Lucas], intituled, An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters. [Anon].
- John Rutty
- Date:
- 1758
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A free and candid examination of a pamphlet / [by C. Lucas], intituled, An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters. [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![/ [ 4i ] that is fill the Baths fooner, after great Rains ? Would not their Quantities be decreafed when thofe Sources were dried. up, by long Drowths, fill the Baths flower, and have their Qualities al¬ tered by either of thofe Changes of Weather. But no fuch Alterations, as far as I can hear, have ever been difcovered in thefe Waters, by the nicett Ob- fervers, and therefore thine Hypothefis is abfurd, and overturned by Experience. But what led thee into fo fcolifh a Suppofition, I perceive from thine own Words, was, that Nuts are found in the Cif- tern of the King’s Bath, and thou couldeft no otherwife explane how they could come there. But I will let thee into the Secret; a Patient of mine, now at the Bath, who is no incurious Qb- lerver, writes to me in the following Manner.—I 4 have been fo fortunate, fays he, as to be prefent 4 at the Opening of the Cittern of the King's Bath, 6 and to fee Nuts, Peach Stones, broken Tobacco 4 Pipes, Fragments of Apothecary’s Phials, and 4 many other Things taken out of it.’ Thou wilt hardly fuppofe that all thefe Things were the Pro¬ duct of thine Coppice Hedges. How fayeft thou, did thefe Things get into the Cittern ? I will inform thee from the fame Letter. 4 As foon, fays my * Correfpondent, as the Bath is emptied, a Man 4 fcours the whole Surface of the Bottom of the Bath 4 with a coarfe Beefom, and by fweeping the feve- 4 ral Things which have been thrown into the Bath 4 over the Rail, or from the adjacent Houfes (a 4 Nufance thou doett tnoft juftly complane of) 4 over the Top of the Cittern, which is full of 4 large Holes, fome of the feveral Things which 4 are thus fwept over its Surface, do flip into it, 4 and are found in the Cavities round the Mouth 4 of the Spring, when the Cittern is removed, 4 which is done once in a Year or two, to the great 4 Wonder of the Spectators.’ It is ftrange that thou V.- .](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30548846_0051.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
