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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    [ 5+ ] and is undoubtedly the fame Salt.— •f Its Cryftals are long and llender ; they conflft of four unequal fldes, the upper and inferior being broader than the lateral ones. At one end, the Cryftal terminates in Two Trian¬ gular furfaces, at the other, in Two inclined Planes. Fig. 2. This Salt is at firft remarkably cool in the mouth, but imprefles a ftrong bitter tafte as it diflolves. It’s free from any acrimonious biting fenfation ; nor has it that nauleous favour which the common purgingSalts leave behind them. Being flung into Milk which is near boiling, it curdles it, and produces a Whey. It ferments gently with Spirit ■f Saiis Calcarii Cryflalh tenues, iongssque funt: iifque mediis quatuor latera paralleiogramma funt at fere inaequalia ; ex altera veto parte, ipfe mucro ex binis planis latcribus triangularibus formatur, ex altera & adverfa parte duo plana quadrata habet, perperuo ad contrarium cum priore ilia parte pofitum.—Tir act at us de Fontibui Me di cat is Anglia. of r.
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