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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    15. The determination of thefe Particir may Ihewthe Advantages, orDifadvantages, keeping the Well open, and taking the Wa up by the Hand ; or keeping the Well clc and raifing the Water by means of a Pump. 16. And thefe are the principal Heads t] occur, with relation to the Waters in their Ri Courfe, and Receptacle, upon the firfb View the Subject. II. The Waters confiderd in a State of Sep ration from their Spring.> Courfe, Receptacle. Article 14. What are the Appearances, and fenfihle Qualiti of the ‘ Waters upon being frejh taken up, ii dean Glafs, from the Receptacle ; and diret examin'd, by the Senfes, at the Well-Head ? they fparkle, or bubble in the Glafs ? What their Smell, Tafle, Colour, Coldnefs, Clearnej and Specif ck Gravity ? 17. The bell way of profecuting a phyfic Enquiry feemsto be by beginning with the E: animation of the fenfible Qualities of the Su je<5t; or, at firft, ufing the direft Teftimony the Senfes •, and carrying that as far as it will g< but afterwards contriving, and ufing, particul Helps for the Senfes; fo as to bring thofe thin: before them, which wou’d nototherwife appea whereby a much more intimate, and phyfica knowledge of the Subjedl is procurable. Article 15. How do the fenfible Qualities of the Water alter, funding, at the Well-Head, in the fame Glafs, the open Air, for fome hours, or days P 18. Whilft the Water remains in its Spring Channel, or Receptable, it probably receives great!