A dissertation on the mineral waters of Saratoga : containing, a topographical description of the country, and the situation of the several springs ; an analysis of the waters, as made upon the spot, together with remarks on their use in medicine, and a conjecture respecting their natural mode of formation : also, a method of making an artificial mineral water, resembling that of Saratoga, both in sensible qualities and in medicinal virtue / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. physician in the city of New-York.

  • Seaman, Valentine, 1770-1817.
Date:
MDCCXCIII [1793]
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Credit: A dissertation on the mineral waters of Saratoga : containing, a topographical description of the country, and the situation of the several springs ; an analysis of the waters, as made upon the spot, together with remarks on their use in medicine, and a conjecture respecting their natural mode of formation : also, a method of making an artificial mineral water, resembling that of Saratoga, both in sensible qualities and in medicinal virtue / by Valentine Seaman, M.D. physician in the city of New-York. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    which is moft particularly experienced by breath- ing in the orifice of the rock. III. When drank, their firffc impreflion on the palate, is agreeably acefcent, fuccced by a naufe- ous faline tafte ; they afterwards give up acefcent eructations, like fermented liquors, and which are no ways unpleafant. IV. The hydrometer {lands at the fame height in thefe, as in fnow water. V. Notwithstanding the difcharge of air from thefe waters, makes them appear to be in a continued ebulition, yet they are cold, the tem- perature, however, is not the fame in all the fprings ; but feems to diminiih in proportion to their brilknefs, thus the bathing fpring and the barrel, each of which difcharges about twenty gallons in an hour, which is much more than the reft do, lowered Fatherinheits thermometre from 72°, the heat of the atmofphere, to 52°, while in the others it flood at 560 and 58°, but in the rock water, which runs very ilowly, it remained at 670. VI. By the application of a gentle heat, thefe waters difcharge a great quantity of air in bub- bles ; it is upon this property, that their ufe in railing bread depends, and for which purpofe they are carried away in conliderable quantities, daily, even fometimes to eight or ten miles diftance ; all that is neceflary being merely to make the dough, with flour and this water alon?, and it is imme- diately ready to put in the oven. II. EX-