The report made to the National Institute of France, in the month of December, 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin, respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul, & Co. : with extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva; and other testimonies in favour of the same waters : to which are added, some notes and observations, by N. Paul.

  • Portal, Antoine, 1742-1832.
Date:
1802
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Credit: The report made to the National Institute of France, in the month of December, 1799, by citizens Portal, Pelletan, Fourcroy, Chaptal, and Vauquelin, respecting the artificial mineral waters prepared at Paris by Nicholas Paul, & Co. : with extracts from the reports of the Society of Physicians of Paris, and the Faculty of Geneva; and other testimonies in favour of the same waters : to which are added, some notes and observations, by N. Paul. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ( -57 > tffie Medical Society gave, in the report juft, quoted, a very favourable account of ProfefFor At tumonelli’s Work. Note H.—Page 34; As it may be intetefting to the Reader to have an opportunity of comparing the opinion delivered in this Report, by the French philofophefs, ori the imitation of mineral waters, with that of the lateft Englifh medical authors on the fame fubje<ft, I fhall tranferibe here the following paflage from Dr. Saunders’s valuable work on the medicinal effects of mineral waters, in which he has pointed out in the fulleft manner, both the ad- vantages that may refult from the artificial imita- tion of thofe waters, and the difficulties,- which, in fome inftances, v/e may ftill encounter in attempt- ing it. u The compofition of the moft celebrated mineral waters having been known *by accurate analyfis, leveral ingenious men have endeavoured to confirm their experiments by fynthefisj and to producej by artificial means, a compound, in all refpefts fimilar fca the natural preparation. To this 1