The history of the Dorton Chalybeate, near Brill, Bucks : with a concise treatise on its chemical properties and medicinal uses.

  • Knight, Thomas.
Date:
1833
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Credit: The history of the Dorton Chalybeate, near Brill, Bucks : with a concise treatise on its chemical properties and medicinal uses. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library at Yale University.

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    DORTON CHALYBEATE; ITS HISTORY AND CHEMICAL PROPERTIES. IT is surprising- that although attention was early directed to the effects of Mineral waters, no chemical investigation of their con- tents was attempted until the end of the seventeenth century. Since that period the component parts of all the springs, which either fashion, or utility, has rendered celebrated, have been ac- curately ascertained; and the means, which the laboratory of nature furnishes for the mitigation of human suffering, have be- come co-extensive with the progress of science. The increased certainty given to analysis by the researches of modern chemists, and the knowledge now attained of the powers of the various tests, whose qualities and use were till recently im- perfectly understood, enable us at once to ascertain the value, and direct the application of the healing fountains of our general mother-earth. Those which are termed Mineral differ, it need B