A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author.

  • Marcard, Heinrich Matthias, 1747-1817.
Date:
1788
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Credit: A short description of Pyrmont : with observations on the use of its waters / abridged from the German 'Description of Pyrmont of Dr. Marcard' ; revised by the author. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    . t *5 ] ' ter fomewhat more^than a grain of iron, dif- folved by fixed air only. Mr. Bergman has found out, that fuch a quantity of water can contain but little more than one grain of iron diflolved by fixed air. With this free fixed air the Pyrmont water abounds more than any other whatever; for when a glafs of it is taken out of the well, a gufti of bubbles fpring from the bottom of it, equal to the moft fparkling Champaign *. Some further experiments have fhewn, that fixteen cubic inches of this water, which has been preferved fome time in a bottle, will yield the incredible quantity of twenty-three inches of air in its free and expanded ftate; and, as water which is taken frefh from the well, will always yield two or three inches more, we may reckon, that Pyrmont water in this ftate contains from twenty-five to twenty- * Dr. Donald Monro, who has been himfelf at Pyr¬ mont, fays, in his Treatife on Mineral Waters, Vol. I. p. 410. “ It is a very brifk, fpirity chalybeate, which, as tc taken from the fountain, fparkles like the brifkeft “ Champaign wine, and to me had fomething of the tafte “ of the fineft old hock, which had loft a great deal of its u acidity by age,”