A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders.

  • Saunders, William, 1743-1817.
Date:
1805
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: A treatise on the chemical history and medical powers of some of the most celebrated mineral waters : with practical remarks on the aqueous regimen. To which are added, observations on the use of cold and warm bathing / by William Saunders. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by King’s College London. The original may be consulted at King’s College London.

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    Vll various kinds of common water that are daily employed in dietj or for domeftic purpofes. A large pare of this work is devoted to the confideration of mineral waters, with a peculiar view to thofe adive heterogeneous fubftances by which thefe fprings acquire ad- ditional fenfible properties, and highly valu- able medical powers. It is particularly in fuch fubjedls as thefe, that the fcience of che- miftry may be called in to aid our enquiries, and it has been employed moft fuccefsfully in giving us clear and accurate information as to the nature of all the foreign matters, the prefence of which conftitutes the difference be- tween a common and a mineral water. There is no fcience to which a greater acquifition in point of real matter of fad has been gained within thefe few years ^ and in proportion to this improvement, has the chemift been able to throw much light on the fubjed: of mineral waters with regard to fome of their moft fubtle and active contents, a fubjed which ha,s al-