A new experimental inquiry into the nature and qualities of the Cheltenham water : To which are now added, observations on sundry other waters ... With an appendix on the mephitic-alkaline water; a new and approved remedy against the stone and gravel / By A. Fothergill.

  • Fothergill, A. (Anthony), 1732?-1813.
Date:
1788
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Credit: A new experimental inquiry into the nature and qualities of the Cheltenham water : To which are now added, observations on sundry other waters ... With an appendix on the mephitic-alkaline water; a new and approved remedy against the stone and gravel / By A. Fothergill. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    \ [ >3 ] HI. Marine. Marine Acid with Mineral Alkali—Common Salt Vegetable Alkali—Digeftive Salt — Calcareous Earth—Salited Lime Magnefia—Salited Magnefia. IV. Aerial. Aerial Acid with Mineral Alkali Vegetable Alkali Pure Calcareous Earth or Lime Pure Magnefia Iron* Zinc Manganefe. All which afford Aerated Compounds, more or lefs foluble in water, and therefore partaking of the nature of neutral falts. Befides thefe, fometimes are found fulphur, foffil oil, and extracts from vegetable and animal fub- flances. The foregoing heterogeneous matters are never found all together, but are more or lefs nu- merous in different waters. Snow Water, though defiitute of air, contains a minute portion of nitrous acid, and falited calca- reous earth. * Jron is fometimes fufpended in waters by hepatic air: Rain