An enquiry into the nature and principles of the Spaw waters. With a mechanical explanation of their virtues and uses in many diseases. To which is subjoined, a cursory enquiry into the nature and properties of the hot fountains at Aix la Chapelle / By Charles Perry, M.D.

  • Perry, Charles, 1698-1780.
Date:
1734
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Credit: An enquiry into the nature and principles of the Spaw waters. With a mechanical explanation of their virtues and uses in many diseases. To which is subjoined, a cursory enquiry into the nature and properties of the hot fountains at Aix la Chapelle / By Charles Perry, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( 9] ) a Retort ; there will remain a perfect SuU phur. This is his Text. ft. Tingue aliquod in- flammahile> v. g. Oleum Terebinthina, Ju~ niperi, Succini, 8Cc. dijlilla per Re- tortajn^ & acquires Sulphur vivum perfe Slum. (i.) Monfieur Rrefmal further obferves, That the Salt, which remains after Evapora¬ tion, being put into a Crucible, and placed in a melting Furnace, will melt prefently: That for the Time it is on the Fire, it gives a Flamesrefembling live, burning Sulphur; or like common Salt in a melting Furnace. After this Operation, he fays, the laft affumes an ironifh Colour, and becomes fixed : Never- thelefs, it difiblves in Water; and the So¬ lution being filtered and evaporated, renders a Salt perfectly white : But that Salt, being again expofed to the Fire, lofes its Fixidity, and diffipates entirely. But here I take Leave of thofe Authors; leave them to them- felves, and proceed to deliver my own Sen¬ timents. The fine Flower cf Brimftonc, which re- fults from the Steam of the Waters, in the Manner above mentioned,(and in whole For¬ mation,