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A practical dissertation on Bath-waters ... To which is added, a relation of a very extraordinary sleeper [Samuel Chilton, of Tinsbury] near Bath ... / [William Oliver].

  • William Oliver
Date:
1764
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Credit: A practical dissertation on Bath-waters ... To which is added, a relation of a very extraordinary sleeper [Samuel Chilton, of Tinsbury] near Bath ... / [William Oliver]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    alfo broken a little, and fet in the open Air, will grow too hot for your Fingers, Much in like manner it hap= pens in the Mines in Bohemia: We are affured from very good Authors, that their Pit-Coal which abounds with. Salts, being expos’d only to the Air ~ in a Heap, will not only grow. hot» and fend forth fulphurous Fume, but actually inflame. So that we have little suas I think, of any other Inquiry, o find out Acid and Alkaly in thofe soa as the Caule of their Heat, or any Calx Viv. or burnt Lime (which I never heard of any where in the Bowels of the Earth) to Fagen the Opinion of fome Chymitts, wz. That’ no.Mate- — rials mix’d can raife a Fermentation, but what have firft pafs’d the Fire, and been by it calcin'd. “Tis true, any Acid and Alkaly mix’d together will do the fame, as is well known; and the Spirit of Nitre, and Oil of Turpentine, Cloves, or the like Aro- matick O.], mix’d together in a Glafs- Vial,
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