The argument of sulphur or no sulphur in waters discussed: with a comparison of the waters of Aix-la-Chapelle, Bath and Bristol / wherein ... the contents of the last are ascertained with a ... greater degree of precision than in the Essay of a late adept [C. Lucas] ... being the subjects of correspondence between the author of the Methodical synopsis of mineral waters [i.e. John Rutty], and W. R. Esq.; and some others. And to this is subjoined a more explicit account of the nitre of the ancients. To which are annexed, two tracts: I. The analysis of milk, and the several species thereof. By John Rutty, M.D. II. A practical dissertation on the uses of goat's whey [by James Kennedy].
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- 1762
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Credit: The argument of sulphur or no sulphur in waters discussed: with a comparison of the waters of Aix-la-Chapelle, Bath and Bristol / wherein ... the contents of the last are ascertained with a ... greater degree of precision than in the Essay of a late adept [C. Lucas] ... being the subjects of correspondence between the author of the Methodical synopsis of mineral waters [i.e. John Rutty], and W. R. Esq.; and some others. And to this is subjoined a more explicit account of the nitre of the ancients. To which are annexed, two tracts: I. The analysis of milk, and the several species thereof. By John Rutty, M.D. II. A practical dissertation on the uses of goat's whey [by James Kennedy]. Source: Wellcome Collection.
![[Vi] V nation of parts^ either hy the fire or by putrefahlion-^ but in their natural fiate^ have the fame effects on the organ of fmelling and in difcolouring metals as the So¬ lution of Sulphur^ and what is of more importance^ in their operation on the human body. Had I indulged the fpirit of refentment^ a certain Author might have been here reprefented in a light which would have moved laughter in my readers; but Ichofe not to be ludicrous on a ferious fubjeSi^ and at the fame time do gladly embrace the prefent opportunity of paying proper regard to every degree of real merit in bis performance.^ and particularly with refpe^l to thofe Experiments of fome importance confirming the prefence of a volatile fulphureous Acid^ and likewife of the Nitre of the Ancients in the Chalybeate waters of Spa, and in thofe of Aken and Borfet; and I have cheerfully fubmitted to the drudgery of extracting^ feparating and digefting thefe and fome other Experi¬ ments from amidft a farrago of extrinfic matters with which they fiand blended in his book., and, of applying them to the elucidation and cf 'ihlijhment of the point in quefiion^ tho advanced by hirtf. with a contrary^ intention. And this may ferve as an anfwer to the Objection that has frequently been made to the prefent undertaking.,, viz. that the Author is not worthy of the ferious and folemn confutation here beflowed on him; but perhaps it were better that thofe who made this Objection fhould. abate a little of their pride., and recoiled that feveral of the Adepts^ although bad reafoners., have left us many valuable Experiments which have proved ufeful to pofterity and been applied to far better pur- pofes than the authors of them ever imagined or intended. I do alfo moft cordially acknowledge that the Au-. tbor s cenfure of the lax and vague fenfe in which the word^ Sulphur has been ufedy is undoubtedly jufi., and m.av](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b31870004_0006.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
