Hampstead-Wells: or, directions for the drinking of those waters ... With an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general; with some experiments of the Hampstead Waters, and histories of cures / [John Soame].

  • Soame, John.
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[1734]
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Credit: Hampstead-Wells: or, directions for the drinking of those waters ... With an appendix, relating to the original of springs in general; with some experiments of the Hampstead Waters, and histories of cures / [John Soame]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    any Coagulum appear. I have likewife kept the Milk and the Hampftead Water thus mix'd to¬ gether 4 Days, and it was not changed in the leaft, but as fweet as when it came from the Cow. From which, I conclude, that this Water will no ways hinder a Milk Diet or Regimen, and is alfo very proper when you drink the Afles Milk, and will affift very much the Patient in his Cure. And lafily, I concluded, that no Acid Salt was here predominant, it appearing to me to be far nearer to an Alkaly, than an Acid Salt. To prove farther, that this Spring is very itrong of the Steel, witnefs the Experiments of the Tinc¬ ture it gave to fo fmall a Quantity of Galls ; that no Spaw Waters, either in Germany or Eng~ land, doth exceed. So that were it from an E- metick, or Purgative Mineral, as from Alum, or Copper, this mull have been a Cathartick ; but we have no fuch A durance from Experience : „ ... befides, were it from Copper, a great Vomitive, Pllarm then the Mineral Deing mixed in a lets Quan- Ration. tity, mu ft purge by Stool. For, as the learned Se£t.2.C.i Dr. Willis has proved, when the Irritation of the De Vomit. Jnteftinal Fibres is lefs than is required to caufe a Vomit, it worketh by Stool. Now, had there been fo much Copper, as clearly to have mani- fefted itfelf, this Hampftead Spaw, if not an Erne- tick, muft have been a Cathartick at lead in an inferiour Degree. Conlidering , in the next place, the Solution of Vitriolum Mart is, or Vitriol of Iron, with Galls, will ftrike a Purple, and from thence a Black, with addition of more Galls- I began a Com- parifon of this Spring Water and Vitriol of Iron, otherwife called Sal Chalybis, made out of Filings of Steel, and Oil of Vitriol: I took a Pint of common Spring Water, in which I diflolved \