An enquiry into the contents, virtues, and uses, of the Scarborough. Spaw-waters: with the method of examining any other mineral-water / By Peter Shaw.

  • Peter Shaw
Date:
1734
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Credit: An enquiry into the contents, virtues, and uses, of the Scarborough. Spaw-waters: with the method of examining any other mineral-water / By Peter Shaw. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    the Enquiry ; and diredt the feveral Steps to be taken in it : For the whole Bufinefs being thus divided into manageable Parts, each of them may be feparately wrought upon, to advantage,; whilft,-by this Contrivance, the Mind is lefs diftradled ; and a prepared, ordigefted, Matter more readily furnifhed for aHiftory of the Sub¬ ject : tho’ this Matter, thefe Heads, and the Method itfelf, muft neceffarily, at firft, be rough and imperfedt ; fo as to require alteration, and amendment, when the Hiftory fhall come to be wrote. 2. Every Mineral Water may deferve to be enquired after in three general States ; viz. (i) in its Rife, or Pafiage under Ground, and Re¬ ceptacle ; (2) in a State of Separation from the Spring, Courfe or Well; and as contain’d in Veffels, or Glades: and (3) as drank by Men, or taken into the Body. Thefe three States muft be, therefore, regarded in our Articles of En¬ quiry. The IFaters conjider’d in their Rife, Courfe, and Receptacle. Jrticle 1, What is the Situation of the WW7, or Receptacle ? 3. This Qucflion chiefly regards the Situation of the Well with refpedt to the Courfe of the Sun, the blowing of the Winds, and the nature and form of the circumjacent Country : as thefe, Particulars are neceffary to be enquired into, on feveral Accounts. Thus, for example, if a Wa¬ ter, abounding with a volatile mineral Subftance, or Spirit, fhould be ftrongly beat upon, in its Receptacle, by the Rays of the Sun, or by the - - Winds 3
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