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

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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$TT RoR fee IX: Sammarily in one View the principal Appearances afforded above, together with fome of the foreign ones. FN Senfible | Specifick | Silver and its'| Other Metals qualities, Gravity. Solution. and their So- tions, _ Some inodorous, Silver of a gold} Little change Others ftrongly colour, and by alwith the felution longer ftay red pur-|of Sal Martis. plith, and then blackith,’ Selution milky; or grey at the fountain. fulphureous, and like the wafhings of a foul gun. baths. — Moffai. Smell like a] As 838 to foul gun: milky,| 840 compared bluith, to a_ neigh- bouring {pring Turns Silver of a} Brightens the Copper-colour. A jfolution of gold. blackith fediment with the folution. Limpid, fome-} Equal to that times wheyifh :!of the neigh- fmell like a foul | bouring brook gin; flavour of a boiled egg. Silver ofaleaden| Goldofa deeper. and copper-colout.| yellow, copper of its folution a dark!a_— deeper _red. brown fediment. {Blackened with the folution of copperas; iron was blacketied. The colour of and copper-colour.}gold heightened. A brown fediment;Copper redder. with the folution. |Black with folu- tion of copperas. Silver of a cop-| Black with folu- | pet-colour & blacks/tion ot coppetas. a brown yellowith fedinent with the folution. Silver of a cop-| Black with fo- per, leaden, and/lution of éopperas black, colour. . dusky yellow fedi- ment with the fo- lution. es Biuith, viewed] Lighterthan] Silver of a leaden from above: fe-! diftilled water. tid, flavour of roafted eggs. Lifbleak, | & fetid (mell. rt {pring-|. Equal to that of diftill?’d wa- ter, ahem —_—— Strongly fetid. ee He eer Very fetid: fla- vour of a boiled egy. Silver gold-co-| Blaék with folu- loured, black and |tion of éopperas. copper coloured. A brown grumous fe- diment with the fo- lution. TEES | cera Srna Fetid; and the j favour of a boil- éd egg. Silver yellow,| Blackifh, clear} coppec-coloured, & with folution of } black. A {mall copperas. brown, yellowith ifediment with the folution. er mo$

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