Experiments and observations, to investigate, by chemical analysis, the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chapelle, in Germany : and of the waters and boue near St. Amand, in French Flanders / By John Ash.

  • Ash, John, 1723-1798.
Date:
1788
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Credit: Experiments and observations, to investigate, by chemical analysis, the medicinal properties of the mineral waters of Spa and Aix-la-Chapelle, in Germany : and of the waters and boue near St. Amand, in French Flanders / By John Ash. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    PREFACE. WHEN I firft formed a deiign of going to Spa, Aix-la-Cha- pelle, and the adjoining places, fo filled with mineral waters, in the fummer of the year 1787, I propofed little more to myfelf than merely amufement, and to colled, if poffible, fome better in- formation of the nature of thofe cele- brated fountains, of which fuch differ- ent and imperfed accounts have been given to the public, by a great variety of writers upon them : for, having been engaged for near forty years in a very extenfive range of medical pradice, in a large and populous town, fituated B nearly