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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    [44] Cafes, will neverthelefs be of the ut- moft Benefit in others. It is therefore to be ea that fome Procef§ could be difcovered, whereby we might collect this vola- tile vitriolic Spirit from the Waters, in a feparate State, that fo it might oc+ cafionally be added to them, in Cafes wherein this Principle of the Waters. may be chiefly indicated, when the 7 Waters in their natural State may be found too {fparingly impregnated with it. But if we confider how very fugi- tive the volatile Particles are found to be, not only of this, but of every mineral {pring, we muft be inftantly convinced, that the Attempt to obtain them in a feparate State, is an im- practicable Project. Nay indeed, not only the Subtility of the volatile vi- triolic Principle in Bath Waters renders it