A full and distinct account of the mineral waters of Pyrmont, and Spa ... / Collected from the best authors, and improved by Dr. Turner.
- Turner, George, M.D.
- Date:
- 1734
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: A full and distinct account of the mineral waters of Pyrmont, and Spa ... / Collected from the best authors, and improved by Dr. Turner. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![£ i©8 ] CHAP. II. The analyfis of thefe feveral Fountains, ly Mr. Chrouet, M. D. I Begun, fays he, with that rubrick or red earth which is found fixed to the pavement of the wells, or in thofe channels through which the waters run; that which I found moft worthy of observation was that this earth feem’d to contain the minute particles of whatever fubftances enter’d their compofition, and that becaufe they are not feparated by putrifaction or corruption, but by their proper weight and by the diflipation of thofe fpirits that fuftain them. This is fo true that if a glafs of this water ilfuing from the fountain is ex- pofed to the air, one fees fome moments after, little bodies of a redifh colour floating therein, which all come from the furface of the water, and increafe in number proportionably to the dif- fipation of it’s fpirits, and at laft fubfide at the bottom under the form of red earth; the bottles kept for that ufe being a convincing proof. Thofe who judge of it by it’s look, take it to be a kind of iron ruft, but it’s levity and unfluofny which it leaves on the fingers upon touching it contradi&s this opinion, moreover the four or five fountains which I examined with the utmoft care refemble one another but very little, for that of T’onneltt is of a lively red colour, and tafts fweet. as fugar, that of Pouxhon is yellow, and piquant to the taft, that of Sauvemere is of the fame colour, but like that of Tonnelet in fweetnefs ; and that of Geronlier is alfo yellow but of a faltilh tafte. After](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30778827_0116.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
