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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    altogether pure and fimple,and may have acquir’d divers Properties by the Diverfity of Mixtures which in them are made, either in the Earth or Air ; and akho’ they contain none of thofe Spe¬ cies of Minerals, which may be referved to the middle Mineral, or metallick Gender, the Parti¬ cipation whereof gives the Name of Mineral to thofe Waters which are impregnated therewith; neverthelefs they have fomething Mineral, for the Salts and Earths, which are always mix’d with them, are Mineral Produdiions* And in the mod part of the Waters fent for Mineral, where¬ on the Obfervations made in the Royal Academy are here related ,* there was found only Salt and Earth in different Proportions. The Diftinc- tion of the Waters of this fort, that are ufed only medicinally, and thofe which are commonly made ufe of in order to Aliment, depend only upon more or lefs of thefe Mixtures. The com¬ mon Waters,which are edeemed the bed, are the mod fubtil, light, and lead mixed. Mod Naturalids of late are of opinion, that there is no certain Standard for the weight of Waters, being fcarce ever one Day exadlly the fame,but always varying from the Air, and Fire contain’d in them : for as the firft is more or lefs rarefied, the Water will be lighter or heavier ; the Weight is alfo varied according to the fundry Properties of Materials the Water brings along with it at different times, and from feverai o- ther Accidents, and even the Air itfelf has no certain Standard ? for the more or lefsWater there is in it, the Bafis of its Pillar will gravitate more or lefs on the Surface of the Water, or Body weighed. So that it is impoflible abfolutely to determine the fpecidck Gravity of any me¬ dicinal Spring ; only thus far we can judge in ge¬ neral, which are the light and which are the M 2 heavy