Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle.
- Myrtle, Andrew Scott.
- Date:
- 1869
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Practical observations on the Harrogate mineral waters : with cases / by Andrew Scott Myrtle. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.
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![protochloride and protocarbonate of iron, as discovered by Dr. Sheridan Muspratt, College of Chemistry, Liverpool ; and chloride of barium, discovered by Dr. Miller, King’s College, London, in 18G5; salts which were not found in water taken from the same source, although examined in ] 854 by Dr. Hofmann. Here I cannot help remarking that several o£ the changes above described are for the better. Some of them may be more imaginary than real—that is to say, the salts might have been found in the water by former analysts had they been looked for. To Dr. Muspratt, however, is due the sole merit of establishing the nature and value of the chloride of iron spring ; and his discovery was so unexpected, and so thoroughly at variance with established beliefs, that at first it was looked upon with doubt. That doubt was properly acted upon by subjecting the water to the analysis of Dr. Miller on the part of the proprietors of the spring, and Dr. Herapath, on the part of Dr. Muspratt; and it must prove a satisfaction to every one to know that these three eminently scientific chemists came independently to the same conclusion—a conclusion which exhibits Harrogate in a new light and shows that it can boast of possessing the richest, the rarest chalybeate water which has ever been subjected to the test of chemistry. From the fact that the most important of the sulphu- rous and saline chalybeate waters show the same temperature (ranging from 408 to 48°) summer and](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21524750_0036.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
