Volume 2

Three tracts on Bath water. : By R. Charleton, M. D. ... Tract the first. A chymical analysis of Bath water. Second edition. Tract the second. An inquiry into the efficacy of Bath water in palsies. Second edition. Tract the third. Histories of hospital cases under the care of the late Dr. Oliver; with additional cases and notes, by the editor.

Rice Charleton

Date:: MDCCLXXIV. [1774]

Credit: Three tracts on Bath water. : By R. Charleton, M. D. ... Tract the first. A chymical analysis of Bath water. Second edition. Tract the second. An inquiry into the efficacy of Bath water in palsies. Second edition. Tract the third. Histories of hospital cases under the care of the late Dr. Oliver; with additional cases and notes, by the editor. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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/ [ ] bably the reafan why its virtues can never be reftored, when it is once grown cold. The heat of the feveral baths, as taken by Farenheifs mercurial thermometer, is as follows: The water of the King’s Bath, where it is of .the greateft warmth, raifes the mercury to lo;^ degrees ^ and finks it from thence, in its coolefi: part, to loo. f The thermometer Hands in the Hot Bath at loo, or loi. The different degrees of heat in the Crofs- Bath, are 93 and 94. The heat of the Queen’s-Bath, is from 99 to 98. The waters which are pumped up from the cijierns of the feveral baths for dHnking^ and which are conveyed through pipes immediately from their fource, were found to be of various degrees of heat, at different times of trial, t Thus the water which flows from the pump of the Crofs-Bath, has defeended from 110 de¬ grees, through ail the intermediate ones, to 105. That-

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