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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    than hard water; at the fame time that it covers and improves the harfh tafte of that acrid fubftance. The fragment of a human calculus was entirely reduced to a chalky powder, by being immerfed twelve days in lime water, prepared with diftilled water; whereas another fragment of the fame calculus fuffered no vilible change in its texture, by being mace¬ rated an equal length of time in lime water, made with common pump water. 12. In nephritic cafes, diftilled wa¬ ter would be a good fubftitute for Malvern-water; for it is a powerful folvent of the human calculus. FINIS. C ' t, ^•-• \ m *