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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    E 5a] the Acid of Alum, Sulphur, or Vi- triol, it will conftitute vitriolated Tar- tar; and the two laft Acids, with volatile Alkalies, will produce the fame Salts, in a femi-volatile State; and with the firft, a true Sal Am- “moniac. Whence we may, with juft Rea- fon, queftion the Verity of the former Affertions: For, different Earths, diffolved in the fame univer- | fal Acid, do produce Salts of diffe- rent Effects and Qualities; and the fame fixed Alkali, with the feveral different Acids, conftitutes different faline Concretions, of different Powers. ‘and Virtues. And it is likewife evident Goi ie fame Obfervations, that, unlefs the particular Quality and Nature of the terrene Principle, in any faline Sub- ftance, as well as the Acid, by which ) : : It