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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    in. fmaJl quantities, in the contents of the water itfelf. Froiri the ingenious experiments made by Dr. Black before-mentioned, we are taught thzit this air pofieffes all the qualities and charaQers pf an acid, which is likewife confirmed by Pro- feflbr Bergman; it is capable of being united Vith various folid fubftances as well as fluid ; and fuch fubftances, according to the prefcnt Nomen- datura of chemiftry, when faturated with fixed kir, are faid to be aerated^ that is to fay, they are fufpended by an air, having the qualities and charafters of an acid, in the fame manner as fuch falts which are faturated with vitriolic acid are denominated by the term of vitriolated. This acid is capable of fufpending various other bo- dies. The Honourable Henry Cavcndifh has endeavoured to prove, that various earths may be liki^wife fufpended in water, by their being fur- nifhed with more than their natural quantity of fixed air, and fhewn by experiments that this i§ the cafe in the Rathbone-jE'lace water; from thence he concludes, that the unneutralized earth in all waters, is fufpended by the fame means, andjuftly obferves, that it is very remark- able that earths fliould be rendered foluble in ^ 2 water.
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