A treatise on the Bath waters / George Smith Gibbes.

  • George Smith Gibbes
Date:
1800
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Credit: A treatise on the Bath waters / George Smith Gibbes. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Dr. Falconer makes the proportion of the solid ingredients in the King’s-Bath Water to be about the one 630th part. The Hot-Bath Water is said not to con- tain so large a proportion of iron as the King’s-Bath but more earth, but where the quantity of iron is not to be appreciated in either, and when even the fresh King’s Bath Water has not the power of affecting the prussiate of potash, I think this circum- stance is not much to be regarded. The Hot-Bath Water certainly contains a larger proportion of calcareous salts than the other Baths. The Cross-Bath contains more sili- ceous and insoluble matter than the other two Baths. The residuum assumed somewhat the ap- pearance of a jelly but not similar to the artificial solution of silex in w^ater. During: evaporation the mass divided into separate portions, the fissures between which did not distinctly enlarge according to the progress of exsiccation. The substance adhered to
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