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.
Date:
[1734]
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

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.

    18/118
    BoylcV Experiment on the Spaw, was but one Ounce of Water to one Grain of Galls finely powder'd, and frefh, to anfwer the fame Experiment; it then plainly fhews the \Difference as eight to one. N. B. Thefe Experiments are heft made upon the Spot, that you may have the Wa¬ ter in its full Force and Vigour, and 3 Grains of Green Then will produce a fine purple Co¬ lour on the fame Quantity of Water, as the before-mention'd Experiment of half a Grain Weight of powder'd Galls : and indeed thofe Waters will anfwer all the Experiments of the true Pohon Spaw, or any other pure Cka- lybeat Water in England. Several more Ex¬ periments will be added at the End of this Treatife, by way of Appendix. T)r. Gibbons was the firfi Ehyfician that encouraged the drinking thefe Waters5 and gave them the Reputation that they once had, when thefe Wells ufed to be frequen¬ ted with as much, and as good Company, as •ufed to go yearly to Tunbridge Wells in Kent. The good old \Dottor continued the ufe of them himfelf and advifed them in all Cafes, where Chalybeat Waters were proper, with great Succefs. He very feldom rnifsd drink¬ ing two or three Glaffes every Mornings when Bufinefs and the Seafon would permit him to be here; which Courfe he continued for many Tears, ’till T)eath bereaved us of him fame few Tears fince, not without a general