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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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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    [ =8 ] tar, which together conftitute a mixed Body that readily diffolves in Water. The fecondy by pouring common Spring Water on pounded Stone Brimftone, and returning it on again after it had foak’d through, ’till it became fufficiently fa- turated with that Mineral. To equal quantities of thefe Fluids, there were added 30 Drops of a Solution of Sublimate in diftill’d Rain Water; and at the fame Time a like Number were dropp’d into that of the Bath. Number i. Or the Water prepa¬ red with Brimftone and Salt of Tar¬ tar, changed inftantly to a fine Orange Colour : Afterwards it grew thick, and let fall a yellowifh Sedi¬ ment ; which being dried, was flung . on a red-hot Iron, where it burnt * with a blue Flame. Number 2. Or the artificial Wa¬ ter
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