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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![[>!] thors, does not diffipate and fly away, but on the contrary, is always more and more fixed ; and this is clear from the fmell of the waters, when newly taken out of the well; for it is not pene¬ trating, fulphureous and fuffocating, as all volatile fpirits ufe to be, but it is a vitriol fmell, though fometimes it has fomething of a gentle fulphur, as when you diffolve vitriol of iron in water, and fmell to it; in a word, it is a gentle metallick, and fomewhat of a fulphur fmelf as one may fay of a piece of tin, copper, iron, filver, yea gold it- felf, that it has fomething of a fmell, the effluvia being exceeding fmall. If you fet a great quantity of it upon the fire, which prefently makes all fpirituous things, which are any way loofe and volatile, prefently to fmell ltrong, you may hold your head over it a great while, fuppofing a large copper full of it, and the fire be ever fo ftrong, yet neither the organs of fmelling nor of refpiration fhall be affedted thereby; or if you have any objedtion to this, then hold your head over the fmall opening of a great glafs receiver full of the water, and heat* ed as quickly as poffible, yet you will perceive nothing different from the fteam of common wa¬ ter. Is this fpirit then fo fubtile, that it cannot affedt the organs of fmelling and refpiration ? All the fpirits we know, in the whole materia medica and cbymicUy the more fubtile and volatile they are, the more powerfully do they affedf the ole- fadtory nerves; or how can we tafte this fpirit, but not fmell it ? It is objedied, that there arifes a fulphureous va¬ pour out of the wells, which manifeftly fhews how the fpirits evaporate; but this objedtion ra¬ ther confirms than deftroys our pofition ; for fup- pofe that the fpirit in the water, either were, or were,](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30778827_0033.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
