An account of the nature and medicinal virtues of the principal mineral waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and those most in repute on the continent : to which are prefixed, Directions for impregnating water with fixed air ... extracted from Dr. Priestley's Experiments on air. With an appendix, containing a description of Dr. Nooth's apparatus ... And a method of impregnating water with sulphureous air ... / by John Elliot, M.D.

  • Elliot, John, 1747-1787.
Date:
MDCCLXXXI [1781]
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Credit: An account of the nature and medicinal virtues of the principal mineral waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and those most in repute on the continent : to which are prefixed, Directions for impregnating water with fixed air ... extracted from Dr. Priestley's Experiments on air. With an appendix, containing a description of Dr. Nooth's apparatus ... And a method of impregnating water with sulphureous air ... / by John Elliot, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. Priestley's Pamphlet on the Impregnation of Water with Fixed Air being out of print, and that Gentleman having no intention of republifhing it, I have judged proper to prefix it to the following Tract, with the additions as printed in his fecond Volume of Experiments on Air. This was done as well that the reader might be entertained with the hiflory of this difcoverj^, as inftrucled in an eafy method of making the impregnation when Dr. Nooth's appara'-us might not be at hand. JWivman Street, Aug. 30, I78i» J.ll/, N. B. In the introduction to the alphabetical lift of mivr-xA v/aters, thofe of Bath, Matlock, and Chaude- Fontaine, arc, after the example of preceding writers, fet down anion?; the fulpbureous waters ; but they cuiiht rather to be clafTed with the waters im.pregnaled with fi::ed air. The term calcareous Glauber's Jalt^ is alfo ufed in one or two places, from the fame authors, though it is not ftri(5lly proper; modern chemiftry havin<'- difcovcred that the bafis of that fait is not cal- careous earthy but magnefia.