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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    x S 5 <r of riiftilled water might be as beneficial as tht “ mefi: celebrated Mineral Waters are in many other d borders, and might prove no in confix ti derable addition to the Materia Medics..* The mofi falubrions watersare thofethat contain moil serial particles, and are lighter than others—* hence the befit waters when friaken fhew nu- merous bubbles like pearls on the fide of the glafs—when very highly empregnated with air, they become aciduleus as the Soda and Pyrmont Waters, and can with difficulty be retrained ik bottles. , ’Till very lately water wras confidered by na- tural Phylofophers as a fimple body, and clafied among the elements. Within thefie few years Che- mi fits have proved by experiments, that water h a compound body confifiing of two princi- ples—and it has been afeertained both by com- portion and de-compofition, that one hundred parts of water are found to confifi of eighty-five parts of Ox yge n G ar,* and fifteen of Hydr a- cfn * * This Water has now obtained a place [in the London, LJtnburgh, and Dublin Pharmacopeias. f Oxygen is the acidifying princip’e of acids, and is the bafe of pure or vital air, now called Oxygen Gafs—this Gafs h affo one of the conftituent parts of the armofpbereof whicfi v forms twenty-feven pans in the hundred.—Hydrogen is the i>afe of inflammable air. See Livoifierb Elements of ChemiiVy.”