Experiments and observations on water, particularly on the hard pump water of Manchester / by Thomas Percival.

  • Percival, Thomas, 1740-1804.
Date:
1769
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Credit: Experiments and observations on water, particularly on the hard pump water of Manchester / by Thomas Percival. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which from their being peculiar to certain people and places, are termed endemic, are chiefly the effects of this powerful and adtive caufe. Thus the inhabitants of the Alps, the Pyrenees, and of many other mountainous coun¬ tries, are fubjeft to a monftrous ex¬ ternal fwelling of the glands of the neck, owing as it is univerfally ac¬ knowledged, to the peculiar proper¬ ties of the water they drink (a). “ As you advance towards Mount Cenis, fays Mr. Sharp, in his excellent Letters from Italy, you find very few exempt from thefe tumours, which are fo enormous, and of fo loathfome an ap¬ pearance, efpecially in ugly, ragged, half-ftarved old women, that the very fight of them turns the ftomach. I was curious in my examination, whe¬ ther any children are born with this m malady upon them: I was informed, B 2 that (a) Quit tuwidum guitur viiratur in Alfilus ? Juvenal. Sat. 13*