A dissertation on the contents, virtues and uses, of cold and hot mineral springs; particularly, those of Scarborough: in a letter to Robert Robinson. Esq., recorder of that corporation / [Peter Shaw].

  • Shaw, Peter, 1694-1763
Date:
1735
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Credit: A dissertation on the contents, virtues and uses, of cold and hot mineral springs; particularly, those of Scarborough: in a letter to Robert Robinson. Esq., recorder of that corporation / [Peter Shaw]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [.1 r ] they weigh, when frefh, confiderably lighter than common Water ; and fit eafier on the Stomach. Though, by the Way, the fpecific Levity of feme Waters above others, is no Argument of their being more wholefome, or fitted: for common IJfe : No, there is a De¬ gree of Heavinefs better fuited to Salubrity. For, as in Air, that of Mountains is more dif¬ ficultly drawn in than Valiies, fo Water, from the Condenfation of thin Vapours, (Snows, Dews, or Mifts,) are neither fo wholefome, nor fit for Wafhing, Brewing, and Kitchen Ufes, as River, Rain, or Springs; and if Spaws be fpecificaliy lighter than other Springs, they are better ; becaufe for that Rea ton, among others, they are Medicinal, Laftly, this Aerial, Mineral Spirit, is bed: evidenced from the brisk, pungent, and irony Tafte they have, and to which, no doubt, their Medicinal Ef¬ ficacy is owing. This Spirit is incoercible, and flies off in a very little Time, warm’d, or expofed to the Air. !Vyrmont, the brisked: of the cold Springs, will lofe its Vertue in Twenty-four Hours, fo expofed, nor will the heft adapted Cement preferve them for many Weeks; how¬ ever, the Goodnefs of a Cement, the Spring they are taken from, and as it is a drowthy, or rainy Seafon, will make fome Alteration in this Refpedt; and while this is dillipating in Air, the Waters are growing worfe; ’till at length, the grofler, irony Particles, that in C 2 frejh