An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas.

  • Lucas, Charles, 1713-1771.
Date:
1757
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Credit: An analysis of Dr. Rutty's Methodical synopsis of mineral waters : addressed, by way of appeal, to the Royal College of Physicians, London / By C. Lucas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    How credible this is, may be judged from this* that a phial of Aken bath water, hot in the natural date, weighed five ounces, one fcruple, feventeen granes ; while the fame phial, filled with the fame water cold, weighed five ounces, two fcruples and eight granes; that is, eleven granes more, cold than hot, in the fame volume. The fame companion being made, between the thermal and the common fountane water of the town, the pure cold was found to weigh three granes and an half more than the fame volume of the hot, though highly impreg¬ nated^ water. See the Essay on Aken waters; p. hi. § 24, § 177. This mud ever be the cafe in all hot, efpecially fpirituous waters ; for reafons, obvious to all capacities, but our author's. He purfues the fame method of dwelling his book with wretched and ill-put-together collections from writers upon other baths, dich as thofe of Wolfs, Herfchherg, Bareges, Carols!?adt, Muhlhrunn, Empfeh, Bourbon, Mont d'Or, Vichy, Melos and Thermia, Balaruc, Wifhbad, Villa, Caldas, Aponus, Pifa, with fynoptic tables of concerto experi¬ ments, as ufual with blanks, by way of throwing a light upon this intricate fubject, ^ method intirely new. Thus iT //jpT is always found no better than darknefs ! This catalogue is great and pompous. But, as far as a man who has not feen the fprings, and can therefore onely reafon by analogy, may judge ; every thing offered, with refpedt to thefe, is as abfurd as what relates to the baths of Aken. With relation to the authors that treated them, he is really or af- fedtedly unacquainted with them ; particularly with BergePv, one of the mod learned and ingenious writers on this fubjedt, who gave the world the bed account of Carolfbadt. To fome, it may perhaps feem arrogant to flip- pofe, that a man of Dr. Rutty's great eminence mud neceffarily have feen, and been converfant with fo O 2 obfcur