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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![Clafs IT. of Pettigoe. psechs Tit It isa light water, the Hydrometre ftanding in it at the fame height as in diftilled water equally ex- pofed : Itis however a hard water, curdling greatly with Soap, and exhibiting a white cloud, and large white fediment with Oil of Tartar, tho’ it does not curdle Milk. . It made an ebullition with Oil of Vitriol. | It did not blacken its cork, nor did Galls exhibit any purple colour with it, but a turbid wheyifhnefs. It ftruck a pale green with Syrupof Violets, a purple with Logwood, and a brown amber tin@ure with Rhubarb. The Analy/fis. é a . ‘ 1. Natural. It is common to this with moft of the fulphureous waters, to exhibit a white or cream-co- and the blades of grafs it wafhed, were of a copper- colour: It alfo exhibited in the bottles in which it had been kept, certain dark coloured flakey fubftan- ces like thin leaves, which had fubfided to the bottom, an appearance common to other fulphureous waters. in a glazed pan, the fulphureous fmell abated very much, but it retained fomething of the favour of that mineral, even until it was evaporated to ‘drynefs, when from a gallon I had fifty-eight. grains of f{edi- ment, which was partly white, and partly dark-co- loured, of a falt and bitterifh tafte, with a fulphureous flavour very nearly refembling Sal polychreft. The fame fediment had nothing urinous in the tafte, nor raifed any pungent vapor, when rubbed with Sa] Ammoniac, altho’ it foon turned of a bright green with Syrup of Violets. {mell’d ftrongly of Sulphur. 453.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30515142_0471.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
