Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Centennial edition / edited and compiled by Ludwig Bruck.
- Date:
- 1888
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Credit: Guide to the Health Resorts in Australia, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Centennial edition / edited and compiled by Ludwig Bruck. Source: Wellcome Collection.
Provider: This material has been provided by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. The original may be consulted at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
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![(9.) Te Hukahuka Spring (Wairakei Geysers), the waters of which are of a sulphurous character. Analysis.—Salts, soluble in water, 3‘09grs.; Salts, soluble in acids, 4*62grs. ; Silica, 6G0grs. ; total salts, 13'81grs. in one gallon; loss by ignition, 3 08grs. ; reaction, slightly acid ; mineral matters per pint, l'8gr. Temperature.—116° F. (10.) Otumuhika [a] Spring ; the waters of this spring are of a sulphurous nature. Analysis.—Salts, soluble in water, 5-28grs. ; Salts, soluble in acids, -74gr.; Silica, 7'86 grs. ; total salts, 13-88grs. in one gallon, or 1*5 gr. of mineral matters per pint ; loss by ignition, 3-47grs. per gallon • reaction, faintly acid. Temperature.—From 100° F. to 150° F. (11.) Otumuhika [6] Spring, the waters of which are of a sulphurous character. Analysis.—Salts, soluble in water, 13-88grs. ; Salts, soluble in acids, 4'31grs. ; Silica, 9-25grs. ; total salts, 27-44 grains in one gallon ; loss by ignition, 3'08grs. ; re- action, faintly acid ; mineral matters per pint, 3-4grs. Temperature : 150° F. (12.) Otumuhika [c] Spring, the waters of which have a sulphurous character. Analysis.—Salts, soluble in water, 3’85grs.; Salts, soluble in acids, l'69gr.; Silica, 2'94grs. ; total salts, 8 48grs. in one gallon ; loss by ignition, l-54gr. ; reaction, faintly acid ; mineral matters per pint, l-2gr. Temperature.—78° F. (13.) Otumuhika [cf] Spring (Acacia), contains 3'9grs. of mineral matters per pint ; reaction, feebly alkaline. Temperature.—136° F. (14.) Rotokawa, or Black Water Spring, contains 17'8grs. of mineral matters per pint ; reaction, acidic. Temperature.—192° F.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b21905770_0117.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
