An essay on the chemical analysis and medicinal properties of soda water and other artificial acidulated mineral waters, with some observations on the native mineral springs of Ireland / [Arthur Clarke].

  • Clarke, Babe.
Date:
1803
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Credit: An essay on the chemical analysis and medicinal properties of soda water and other artificial acidulated mineral waters, with some observations on the native mineral springs of Ireland / [Arthur Clarke]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    fmall expence, and are even in feme cafes fuperior to the natural Mineral Waters, whofe properties may be changed by carriage and other circum- flances—befides their fixed air they contain faline particles of a difagreeable flavour which contribute little or nothing to their medicinal virtue, and may in fome cafes be hurtful. ‘ ' v' ' • - Few Mineral Waters have acquired a higher reputation than Soda Water, and we may add that few deferve greater conflderation irom the real medical virtues it poffeffes, and from the variety of diforders to which it is applicable. From its agreeable talle, and the exhilarating effects which it produces on the lpiiits, it is largely ufed at table as a common beverage m- ftead of cyder, ale, or other fermented liquors, in this country and Great Britain. Ilow ufeful and neceffary muft it therefore be, from the circumftance or its agreeaole flavour, (widen no fmall recommendation) to thofe patients whofe palates have been vitiated by confine- ment, and whofe ilomachs have been debilitated by difeafe.