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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    is a Fail, that when the Bath Waters have loft their tinging Properties, they will acquire them again after they have undergone a thorough Fermentation ; which it would be impofiible they could do, was their Chalybeat Principle vo~ latile. • 9 ' -•' v* *-• * -t .4. .» . What thefe Waters principally lofe when they are withdrawn from their Spring, is their Elementary Fire. I had a Glafs Veffel made of a Globular fhape, from whence arofe two Tubes, the one Capillary, the other of i of an Inch diameter, and both of three Inches in length. This Veflel was fill’d with the Water of the King’s-Bath, taken hot from the Pump, to the top of each Tube ; the larger of which was then covered with a piece of Gold-Beater’s Skin, and fome Putty, which fepara- ted its Contents from all contact with C 2 the
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