A treatise on the Bath waters: wherein are discover'd the several principles of which they are compos'd; the cause of their heat; and the manner of their production / [Rice Charleton].

  • Rice Charleton
Date:
1754
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the Bath waters: wherein are discover'd the several principles of which they are compos'd; the cause of their heat; and the manner of their production / [Rice Charleton]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [6 ] •K w. 1 C HAP. II. Of the Chalybeat Principle in the Bath Waters. THE Bath Waters have ever been deem’d Chalybeat; and it is evi¬ dent they are fo, as well from their Smell and Tafte, as from the Phaeno- mena produced in them by their Mix¬ ture with the following Materials. ift. The Water of each Bath, viz. the King’s, Hot, and Crofs, inftantly changed with Powder of Galls to a rich Purple. 2d. With a few Grains of pow¬ der’d Logwood, they at far ft ftruck a reddilh Purple, and in lels than a Quarter of an Hour turn’d of a deep • Violet.
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