Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art ... / By John Melvill.

  • Melvill, John, M.D.
Date:
[1789?]
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Credit: Observations on the nature and properties of fixible air, and on the salutary effects of the aqua salubris, in preserving health, and preventing diseases : To which are added, strictures on the present practice of physic, pointing out the causes which greatly obstruct the improvement of the healing art ... / By John Melvill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    into the (mailer calk, about one quarter part of what was ufed at firft, until it is fuffici- ently acidulated, which may be known by drawing a little off from a wooden cock in the large calk. A brafs cock muff not be ufed* as the Fixible Air would corrode the brafs, and injure the water. As foon as the water is fufficiently impregnated, it (hould be fecured in large (lone bottles, well corked and ce¬ mented with pitch or turpentine, prepared with a little tallow for the purpofe ; and when a bottle is opened, it (hould be immediately ufed, as the impregnated water foon lofes its virtue when expofed to the air., It is to be hoped, that fome more commodious and per¬ fect method of preparing the Aqua Salubris, efpecially for the ufe of (hips on long voyages. It is but reafonable fome trouble (hould be taken to preferve the health and lives of our feamen, on whofe valour and laborious fervices this great nation depends for her fccurity, and for her wealth. r Hypochondriac and Hyjleric Ajj'eclions. Thefe diforders in men and women are very * fimilar, as far as the difference of the fex will admit