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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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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    and that, under particular circumftances, they all depofit a portion of earth. 1 hefc events conftantly occurring with every natural water as it fprings from tfie foil, feveral in- genious men have itnagined, that earth and air were necelTary con M ituent parts of perfed. water, and have attempted to aliot to each of them, their peculiar fhare in producing the,various appearances of this fluid, and its effed: on the human body. So Hoffman obferves, {a) that water is compofed of watery moifture, or watery properly fo called, of a fluid expanfive ether, and of earthy and faline particles. AflTuming this compofition as true, he goes on to aflTign the particular properties of each ingredient: The ethereal part is the caufe of the fuperiour lightnefs, brifknefs, inteftine motion, and exemption from putrefadion; the watery part, which is by far the greatefl in quantity, is compofed of very fubtile and mobile particles, which infmuate into, and penetrate every fubfliance capable of folution; whilfl; the earthy and faline matter is fixed, and will not rife in diflillation. Hence too, the quality of difT'erenc waters mufl:, according (aj HoitMANi De Elementis aquarum m'lneralium.