Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet.

  • Gifford-Bennet, Robert Ottiwell.
Date:
1892
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Credit: Buxton and its medicinal waters. / by Robert Ottiwell Gifford-Bennet. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    There were also traces of lead, strontium, lithium, and phosphoric acid. As the gas issued from the fissures in the lime- stone rock, it was found to consist of 99*22 grains of nitrogen, 0*88 grain of carbonic acid, and that held in solution in the water, 6*1 cubic inches nitrogen, 41 carbonic acid. In comparing Dr. Thresh's analysis with those previously made by Drs. Pearson, Muspratt, Sir Charles Scudamore, and Sir Lyon Playfair, it will be seen that a new constituent appears in the form of molybdinum, which, as mentioned above, was detected in the mud deposit at the bottom of the tanks into which the water is conveyed, as it issues directly from the springs. In other respects the analyses differ but slightly, nor does the efficacy of the water appear to have become less potent in alleviating or curing those diseases for which it is so deservedly celebrated. The Romans, ever luxurious in their use of hot and tepid baths, doubtless selected the Buxton basin as a station, not merely from a military point of view, but on account of the thermal springs, the curative effects of which