A treatise on the nature and virtues of Buxton waters. With a preliminary account of the external and internal use of natural and artificial warm waters among the antients / [A. Hunter].

Alexander Hunter

Date:: 1773

Credit: A treatise on the nature and virtues of Buxton waters. With a preliminary account of the external and internal use of natural and artificial warm waters among the antients / [A. Hunter]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$that Neighbourhood, was, Jn his time* warm, in many places, to the touch. It will here be neceflary to obferve* that the heat of all thefe waters is vari¬ ous, in degree, from the temperate ones of Buxton, Brijlol, and Mallow in Ireland\ to the hot ones in Iceland, which are faid to be equal to the heat of boiling water. The Chymical examination of mineral Waters has for this laft century been much attended to, and certainly a know¬ ledge of the component parts of any he-* terogeneous fubftance mud greatly aflift in eftablithing its virtues upon a reafon- able foundation. Hoffman, whofe great abilities in Phyfic as well as Chymiftry every one is acquainted with, was amongft the firft who gave us a juft and true Analyfis of mineral waters. Before his time it was ufual to attribute their Vir¬ tues to Gold, Silver, Quicklilver, Tin, Lead, &c. as appears from the learned Andreas Baccius in his book De Thermis* and$