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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![C-] phur ; and that by adding ahquod pingue, it may be made fulphur7 and out of the fulphur may be made fpirit us acidus, or by adding of iron, vitriol may be made of it, alfo of the bare fait of the water a quantity of pure fulphur may be made; and whofoever will rightly confider the original of this fait, as it fhall be afterwards explained, as alfo the generation of the fulphur, and the experi¬ ments relating thereto, will, as it is hoped, have no further doubt that the volatile fpirit of the wa¬ ter muft proceed from the acid of fulphur in the irony ftones and pyritae. Dr. Hare has indeed on the contrary afferted, ift, That fulphur is an alcall. idly. That the acid fpirit that is diftilled from the fait of the Pyr- mont waters, is only a creature or produdtum of the fire; but feeing the author does not confute the experiments, whereby out of this acid creature of the fire, fulphur may be again made in different ways, and fo become what it was, before ever it was brought to the fire, all his objediions fall to the ground. !idly, We fee moreover, that this fpirit isefpe- cially herein diftinguifhed from the common fpirit of fulphur, in that it brings along with itfelf a fuhtilized mineral pinguedo, a fat wherewith it was mixed under ground. It is allowed, that there are few mineral wa¬ ters to be found wherein one can meet with a right, pure, formal fulphur, except in thofe that are cold; and various authors affert many things upon this head without any good foundation. The principles of common fulphur are, an acid) a /mall quantity of fat, and of earth, and it is evidently, a compofitum, which cannot be difiblved intirely in water without the addition of a fharpaU c aline fait. When this is done either by art, or nature in](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30778827_0030.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
