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A new and accurate system of natural history ... / By R. Brookes.

  • Richard Brookes
Date:
1763
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A new and accurate system of natural history ... / By R. Brookes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and with Syrup of Violets it will turn green. A gallon will yield five drams of a whitifh fediment, | throat, from hence it is concluded, that the im- etapa falt is a calcarious nitre, and it is con- iderable diuretick, and fomewhat purgative. - Shadwell Water is found in the Sun Tavern Fields, about two milés eaftward of the Tower of London, is of an amber colour, with a ftrongly acid and ftyptick tafte. It ferments for fome time with Oil of Tartar, and'lets fall a large ochreous fedi- mént.; but with the folution of Alum it continues clear. It will turn a copper half-penny black on the furface, and a knife black, blue and rutty. A gallon contain 1320 grains of a white and yel- lowifh fediment, which has a highly acid and auftere tafte. “The predominant falt of this wa- ter is highly acid and vitriclick, with a combina- tion of fulphur. This water has been chiefly ufed externally; but if a pint of it be drank at twice, in the fpace of an hour, it wil] procure a gentle vomiting, and two or three ftools : it has done a great deal of good in all difeafes of the fkin ; and fome fay it will cure fiftulas, ftubborn rags in the water, and applying them to the parts afteéted. : taken inwardly, it topped internal bleed- ings, and has perfected the recovery from camp Hamp/ftead is well known to bea large village, or rather town, five miles north of London; and great reputation, as that at Tunbridge. will with Oil of Vitriol, and grow warm and {moak. It will keep milk fweet for four days, and will : enti