Experiments and observations, to investigate, by chemical analysis, the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chappelle, in Germany; and of the waters and boue near St. Amand. In French Flanders ... / [John Ash].

  • John Ash
Date:
1788
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Credit: Experiments and observations, to investigate, by chemical analysis, the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chappelle, in Germany; and of the waters and boue near St. Amand. In French Flanders ... / [John Ash]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    8 PO ufes of fo irmportant a part of the Ma- teria Medica. ° ’ The confideration, however, that fo many men, and fome of them of great character, had already laboured in thé © fame field, without attaining to fo de- firable a purpofe, would have checked a lefs ardent zeal to be of ufe to my brethren in the profeffion, as well as to mankind in general. So numerous have been the various writers upon Mineral Waters, that’ an auchor* of no little eminence on thefe fubjeéts in- forms us, that he has been affured by a gentleman of great reading, that up- wards of a thoufand treatifes have been written on the fubject of mineral wa- ters only ; and the celebrity of ‘the waters of Spa, in the bifhoprick of _.* Dr. Falconer, of Bath. a Dae Liege,
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