Experiments and observations on the Crescent water at Harrogate / [Thomas Garnett].

  • Garnett, Thomas, 1766-1802
Date:
1791
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Credit: Experiments and observations on the Crescent water at Harrogate / [Thomas Garnett]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    be imagined that the fame effe&s might be produced by the alternate ufe of the Ample chalybeate, and fulphur waters; yet it is highly probable that thefe different waters, mixed and combined in different proportion^, by the chemiffry of nature* may be better calculated to anfwer the purpofe. To this conje&ure we are led by the following curious faft, of the truth or which I have frequently allured my- feir, but which, I confefs, I cannot explain in a fatisfafilory manner. When the Am¬ ple chalybeate waters at High-Harrogate, are mixed with the fulphur water at Low- Harrogate, a decompofition foon takes place: the mixture alfumes a blackilh tinge; the iron is precipitated, and per¬ haps fome other change is produced. The fame effect follows from a mixture of the Crefcent with the fulphur water. But though the Crefcent contains all the prin¬ ciples of the fulphur water, viz. the fait and fuiphureous gas, together with the principles of the chalybeates at High- Harrogate, yet it holds them all perfeflly in folution. It