The history and chemical analysis of the mineral water lately discovered in the city of Gloucester : the various diseases to which it is applicable considered, and the necessary regulations for drinking it with success ascertained and prescribed / by John Hemming.

  • Hemming, John, -1809
Date:
1789
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Credit: The history and chemical analysis of the mineral water lately discovered in the city of Gloucester : the various diseases to which it is applicable considered, and the necessary regulations for drinking it with success ascertained and prescribed / by John Hemming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( >7 ) animal oeconomy, and thereby be rendered ca* pable of curing or preventing certain difeafes, to which the human frame is daily expofed.— From the above definition, the waters of the fea, and faline fprings, although not generally enu- merated amongll mineral waters, neverthelefs ought equally to be confidered as fuch; for be- fides earthy and felenitic matters, they alfo con- tain a lage quantity of mineral falts. As chemiftry is a fcience which teaches the effeQs of mixture and of heat upon all bodies, whether natural or artificial, with a view to the improvement of arts, and of our knowledge of nature * j it is that upon which all our princi- ples for the inveftigation of the component parts of mineral waters are founded. From the above definition of chemiftry my readers will naturally conclude, that there are two leading guides for our arriving at fuch a knowledge, viz. that of mix- ing different fubftances, by which new compounds* will arife ; or, by the fole application of heat. To fuch as may be unacquainted with the fci- ence of chemiltry, it may be neceflary to explain * This definition is given by Dr. Black, in ]u3 Lefturcs on Clie;niftry, the
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