Practical reflections on the uses and abuses of Bath waters. Made from actual experiments and observations / [William Baylies].

  • William Baylies
Date:
1757
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Credit: Practical reflections on the uses and abuses of Bath waters. Made from actual experiments and observations / [William Baylies]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ 35] & CHAPTER THE SECOND. Of the volatile, vitriolic Acid in Bath Waters; its Nature and Ufes; and of the Changes the Virtues of the Waters undergo by it’s Separation from them. HAT thefe Waters are im- pregnated with an Acid, that this Acid is volatile, and that by means of it’s Union with fome fe- ruginous Matter, it is made vitriolic, Dr. Lucas has demonftrated by many eftablifhed Experiments *. And from this chalybeat Principle, which the volatile Acid of the Waters keeps fafpended in them at the Spring, it is, that thefe Waters, like every other * Essay on Waters, before referred to. D 2 Solution