On the mineral-waters of Carlsbad in Bohemia / by Rodolph Mannl.

  • Mannl, Rodolph.
Date:
[1861]
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Credit: On the mineral-waters of Carlsbad in Bohemia / by Rodolph Mannl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    n on the waters of his birth-place, which thanks to the quantity of its materials and the exactitude of its observations has served as 11 basis to all later accounts ab out Carlsbad. Nothwithstanding the ff inferior state of chimistry at that time, Becher found out all the i principal ingredients and even their true proportions. Though he, of course, could not mention substances, discovered of recent date, such as Brom, Selen, Jodine etc., still it is astonishing to see I the exactitude, with which he has determined the quantities of I Sulphate and Carbonate of Soda and Potash, which with the Muriate of Natron (Soda) form the principal part of our water. He is also I the inventor of a very easy and unexpensive manner of preparing One pound (— 7680 9.369 14.960 8.724 9.062 2.019 0.399 0.030 0.012 _0.052 Total of fixed ingredients 42.627. Carbonic acid gas .... 7,80337. All analyses demonstrate the perfect identity and invariability of our waters. To explain their effects on the body it would be in vain to attribute to each of their elements a specific virtue in one malady or other. The totality of ingredients give their salutary force. None of the substances is superfluous, and each contributes to their medical efficacy, and in this, as it seems, consists the superiority of natural remedies on those combined by human intelligence. Still there are in the water of Carlsbad ingredients, the action of which is well known. Such is their peculiar temperature, the carbonic acid gas, such are the alkaline salts. We may, therefore, reasonably explain at least part of their effect. I pass in silence the influence, which one owes to the change of air and diet, to travelling and the other conditions of Carlsbad-salt by evaporation of the water, grains) of mineral water contains: Sulphate of Potash . . . „ of Soda . . . Chloride of Sodium . . . « Carbonate of Soda . . . of Lime . . . of Magnesia . „ of Protoxid of Iron Alumina. Sihca ........ n v>