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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![~ te Pte oni, Corc]. The {pring near Owen breun, is ftrongly im- pregnated with Sulphur, partly volatile, and partly fixed, (the water bearing carriage) which is combined with calcarious Nitre mixed with a little Natron, and obforbent Earth. We know nothing of the Operation and Virtues of this and the foregoing water by experience, and there- is highly probable, that they are poffeffed of the like Virtues as other fulphureous waters, and of whatever can be the refult of a combination of the calcarious Nitre with the Sulphur in fo {mall a proportion'as not to give them a properly cathartic operation, but render them rather diuretic and alterative, attenuating and cooling ; that they are indeed lefs adapted to correét Acidities than the fulphureous waters-of the firft Clafs, whofe Salt is urinous and alcaline, but at the fame time Sue Or. iy. PETTIGOE Water Pp ETTIGOE is fituated in thecounty of Donne- gall, three miles S. from Lough Dirgh, or St. Pa- trick’s Purgatory, and twelve miles E. from Balhfhan- non. ‘Uhe {pring isin the county of Fermanags and from ettigoe Church, near the bank of the river Termon, and in the neighbourhood is plenty of Lime- fulphureous waters coming from Limeftone rocks. I examined this water in December 1742. in a dry feafon, when, of all the fulphureous waters that had come under my notice, this appeared to be the firong- eft, being of an exceflively fetid and naufeous finell Os tog and 45](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515142_0469.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
