A treatise on the Bath waters. Pt. I. / [Sir George Smith Gibbes].

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
1812
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Credit: A treatise on the Bath waters. Pt. I. / [Sir George Smith Gibbes]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    sin¢e., The existence even of many very active principles was. then. totally . unknown. Many agents and principles which were then supposed . to regulate the phenomena of. nature, are now proved to have been. merely hypothetical. _ _A science which comprehends | SO large a field a inquiry must doubtless. be subject. to continual _ changes, according to. ‘the advances made. in it3 and the. detection of new phenomena may, in every science, suggest that our knowledge of first prin- a ciples, and that our reasoning upon them are very imperfect. This. is peculiarly illustrated in the examination. of elastic aeriform fluids Ww shich now form a very. essential part in 1 the analysis of mine- ral waters. picts 5 As fats apchanilatGun new theories are necessa- rily adopted for ex plaining phenomena where the old are inadequate ; and although the oxygene of _ Lavoisier may have the fate of the phlogiston of Stahl, yet is the advancement of the science ma- nifested by such changes as depend on the acqui- sition of 2 further insight into the operations of nature. bh Aliatteimii. de. The difficulty, which has been ever acknow- leged, of analyzing. mineral waters, arises from -. the multiplicity of agents which nature employs in their-production. - As water is so universal a solvent, its impregnations must be numerous and complicated. Even the air of our atmosphere contains substances which water collects and pre- R 2
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