Directions for impregnating the Buxton water with its own and other gases; and for composing artificial Buxton water.

  • Pearson, George, 1751-1828.
Date:
1785
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Directions for impregnating the Buxton water with its own and other gases; and for composing artificial Buxton water. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    D being fixed on the knobs E of this funnel and ring they muff be immerfed in the Gentleman’s bath in an upright pofition, fo as to fill them with water: then invert them, while thus immerfed, and in this pofition infert the end of a wooden rod, four feet long, or of any other convenient length, into the focket at the other end of the handle of the ring C. By means of this apparatus a perfon may ftand at the fide of the bath, and, with eafe, hold this inverted bottle and funnel (keeping the neck of the bottle below the -fur-face of the water) perpendicularly, over the bubbles which ifiue fpon- taneoufly from the pavement, and rife through the water as defcribed in the note to p. 5 and 6. F. A wide mouthed bottle with a glafs hopper, which fhould contain from eight to twelve ounces of water. A. A. This figure reprefents the bubbles of gas rifing through the Gentleman’s bath at Buxton, fee p. 5 and 6, and the apparatus abovc-defcribed collecting them.