Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters.

  • John Wall
Date:
[1757]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Experiments, and observations on the Malvern waters. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    18/80 (page 16)
    Mineral, fo nothing could by any Analyfts be difcovered in the medi¬ cated Liquor. May not Waters therefore be impregnated in fome- what the fame way, by Effluvia from mineral Subfiances ; perhaps from fome hitherto unknown to Us, and whofe Properties therefore we are unacquainted with ? And who would venture to aftert that there . may not be many fuch in the Bo¬ wels of the Earth*? * VariiE dantur Aquae, heterogeneis quibufi dam Qualitatibys imbutse, qufe vulgarem ex- plorandi methodum, adeoque etiam Cogniti- onem noftram fallunt. Idque baud mirandum eft, cum & menftrua infipida habeamus, qua; quanquam metalla & ipfas gem-mas molliores antea preparatas adoriantur, nullam tamen Salfedinem vel Lingua imprimunt, vel aliis viis facile a fe dimittunt. Referendi hue funt quidam fontes falutares. e. g. Slangenbadenfes, Piperanae, Toplicenfes therms, in quibus, praeter eximiam levitatem, vulgaria examina nihil fere peregrini & folidi deprehendere pof* funt. Pertinet hue Infignis Becheri Obferva^ £io de Spiritu Luti coerulei in Scaturiginibus jpbvij, magnarum plane virium licet infipidus But