An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne].
- George Cheyne
- Date:
- 1723
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: An essay of the true nature and due method of treating the gout together with an account of the nature and quality of Bath waters, the manner of using them and the diseases in which they are proper: as also, of the nature and cure of most chronical distempers, not published before / [George Cheyne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![[45 ] found to fucced bed in Gouty, as well as o- ther Chronical Cafes. The Learn'd have been divided, and much perplex'd about the Heat of Bath Waters. I have always endeavour'd to accout to my felf for it, fiom the common Experiment of mixing Filings of Steel, and Powder ot Sulphur, working them into a Palle with Water, and putting them into a Cellar, under a Cock, dropping Water (lowly and re¬ gularly; the Pade will ferment to fuch a de¬ cree, that the Water running from it (hall be of the lame Heat and Virtue with the Bath Waters; tho' not fo pleafant, nor fo well fit¬ ted to human Bodies. This is a common Ex¬ periment, and thefe are the only natural Bo¬ dies known, which meeting together will pro¬ duce Heat in Water, without artificial Fires. Tournfort, in the Place before mention'd, fays “ It's certain that Filings of Iron deep'd in com- “ mon Water will grow confiderably warm, “ and much more fo in Sea Water: And if “ you mingle therewith fomc Sulphur pow- “ der'd, you'll fee this Mixture really burn. Sir Ifaac Newton, in his lad Edition of his Op- ticks, Bage 354. fays, “That even the grofis “ Body of Sulphur powder’d, and with an e- “ qual Weight of Iron Filings, and a little Wa- €e ter made into a Pade, ads upon the Irons te and in five or fix Hours grows too hot to be “ touch'd, and emits a Flame. That the Heat of the Bath Waters is owing to a Prin¬ ciple within themfelves, is evident, from their retain-](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30546448_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
