Treatise on the natural and chymical properties of water, and on various British mineral waters / by Abraham Booth.

  • Booth, Abraham.
Date:
1830
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Credit: Treatise on the natural and chymical properties of water, and on various British mineral waters / by Abraham Booth. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    involved mankind and the sciences in ob- scurity, until the discovery of printing caused literature to emerge from darkness, and shine with an unprecedented splen- dour. Baccius of Ancona was an early writer upon mineral waters. He ascribes all their efficacy to gold, silver, quicksilver, tin, or lead. The Hon. Mr. Boyle, after- wards the earl of Cork and Orrery, shed a lustre on the early part of the seventeenth century, and was the first to propose and explain the application of re-agents to de- note the substances contained in waters. He published a work on mineral waters in 1685. The Academy of Sciences of Paris appointed M. Du Clos in 1667 to analyse the mineral waters of France, while Hierne examined those of Sweden the same year. Hoffman published a work on mineral waters in 1717. Many other papers were from time to time published in the Philosophical Transactions by the Hon. Mr. Cavendish, and the labours of Le Roi and Boulduc, who