An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph.

  • Randolph, George, 1708-1764.
Date:
1750
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Credit: An enquiry into the medicinal virtues of Bristol-water: and the indications of cure which it answers / By George Randolph. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    is in the Water, but not fpecify what pat- ticular Acid it is, and confequently convey no Knowledge, only that as there is a greater Variety of Acids than Alkalis, there is ftill greater Uncertainty in deter¬ mining Particulars 5 and if this could be known, we Ihould ftill be ignorant what Share this Acid might have in giving Vir¬ tue to the Water, whether in whole, or in Part* or indeed at all: And if in Part only, a very little Obfervation will teach us, that one and the fame Acid may have very dif¬ ferent Effects* as it is in Conjunction with different Subftances. Thus we are told by the Chymifts, that Alum> Sulphur, Vitriol, have all three one and the fame Acid, and yet they are of very different Virtues* I am not ignorant that other Experi¬ ments have been made, with Mixtures with the Water as it comes from the Spring % inch as with a Solution of Silver in Aq. Fort, which, if there is any Sea-falt in it, turns white and milky > if any Sulphur black. But as all thefe labour under the fame. Objections as the former, I need not take up my Reader's Time in examining particularly into them 5 only conclude, that if all thefe Experiments are fo limited and uncer-