An essay on the nature and properties of water, shewing its prodigious use; and proving it to be an universal medicine ... / By Frederick Hoffman.

  • Hoffmann, Friedrich, 1660-1742.
Date:
1761
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Credit: An essay on the nature and properties of water, shewing its prodigious use; and proving it to be an universal medicine ... / By Frederick Hoffman. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “ it be kept in Wine-Cellars, put up into Cc large Earthen Jars, fo as there to depofit its “ Sediment, for forne Weeks or Months be- “ fore it is drank, it thus becomes pure and <£ excellent, and will afterwards keep many fc Years, or even an Age, without fpoiling •c or corrupting ♦ j / The Rivers that flow gently, differ from the former, not only on account of the im- menfe Quantities of Fifh they breed ; but alfo becaufe they generally run on fat clayey Bottoms, or fuch as afford proper Retreats and Nutriment to Fifh ; whence fuch Ri¬ vers are not fo clear and Cryftalline as thofe of a rapid Courfe: But then fuch Waters are of a fofter Nature, and ferve for the Purpofes of Wafhing, Fulling, Scouring, &c. without any confiderable Addition of Soap. Hence it follows that River Waters are not all alike, or equally proper for medicinal Purpofes : Thofe that fhould be chofen for that Purpofe, are clear, light, do not eafily * Jacob. Span, in Obfervation. circa Aqua Rhodan. in Atl. Erudit. Ann* 1683, P. 519, corrupt