An essay towards a natural, experimental and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Ireland. Wherein the several impregnating minerals, being investigated by a series of experiments, each water is reduced to its proper class ... / The whole illustrated with tables, exhibiting a clear view of the experiments in concert, and a comparison of the Irish to the English, and other foreign waters.
- John Rutty
- Date:
- 1757
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay towards a natural, experimental and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Ireland. Wherein the several impregnating minerals, being investigated by a series of experiments, each water is reduced to its proper class ... / The whole illustrated with tables, exhibiting a clear view of the experiments in concert, and a comparison of the Irish to the English, and other foreign waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![-jight blue, and-Galls a bluifh circle at the furface of the mixture. i | | The Analyfis. Ir isaclear water, but covered with a dark copper- coloured Scum. : | This water, when made f{calding hot, tafted fome- what like Hepar Sulpburis, and when evaporated low down, it was naufeoufly bitter. i: A gallon exhaled to a drynefs, yielded forty-three grains of fediment, partly brown, and partly white, of a brackifh and bitter tafte. It foon turned green with Syrup of Violets, and made an ebullition with Vinegar, tho’ far lefs than the fediments of feveral of the waters impregnated with Nazron did. It alfo ex- cited fome little urinous, pungent fmell when rubbed with Sa! Ammoniac, but far lefs likewife than the fe- diments of thofe other waters did. : This fediment boiled in eight ounces of diftilled water to fix, and filtred, yiclded ten grains of pure — Salt to feven of indiffoluble matter. , The clear folution had the naufeous bitter tafte pro- per to calcarious Nitre, and whitened with folution of | Salt of Tartar. ‘The Salt in fubftance had the fame tafte, and being rubbed with Sa] Ammoniac, excited alittle of apungent and fetid fmell, fermented with Vinegar, and prefently turned green with Syrup of Violets : Milk boiled in the proportion of half a pint to half a dram of the Salt was curdled: The fame Salt melted in blifters on the red hot iron like Alum, even as the calcarious Nitre does. ; The indiffoluble matter betrayed but little of the tafte of Lime upon calcination ; yet as it turned red- dith with the {clution of Mercury fublimate corrofive in water, and the water it felf ferments with Oil of Vitriol, we may conclude it is partly a calcarious or: abforbent Earth. j C oral,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515142_0468.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
