The history and chemical analysis of the mineral water lately discovered in the city of Gloucester : the various diseases to which it is applicable considered, and the necessary regulations for drinking it with success ascertained and prescribed / by John Hemming.

  • Hemming, John, -1809.
Date:
1789
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Credit: The history and chemical analysis of the mineral water lately discovered in the city of Gloucester : the various diseases to which it is applicable considered, and the necessary regulations for drinking it with success ascertained and prescribed / by John Hemming. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    by uniting particularly at the top, formed (if 1 may be allowed the expreffion) a moft beautiful flielUwork of air, in the thickefl cluflers imagin- able. 2d. Colour.-—This water is never'tranfpa- rent, but at different times more or lefs turbid j in general it has a whitifh cloudy appearance. 3d. To the fmell it is rather inodorous. 4th. Tafte.—When drawn it is rather brifl;, pungent, and refreftiing; afterwards rather au- ftere, or rough, refembling ink; but with refpeft to this quality, thofe who make a point of attend- ing the Spa, in a regular manner, will agree with me, that to the^tafte it differs fo very greatly, that hardly any two days together is the flrength the fame. I fliall have more particular occafion to take notice of thefe frequent changes in the eourfe of my experiments to be hereafter related. ijth. After being left in an open veffel for a few hours it lofes entirely its pungency and briflc- nefs; its roughnefs is greatly dirainiflicd, and it depofits a fediment; hence, unlefs it is put into bottles well corked, it lofes great part of its me- dicinal virtues. 6th. This water is to be ranked among thofc which arc called cold; bccaufe, whenever the thermo-