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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    cd by the Fire, they lofe their Virtues, and loon become vapid and of no Effect. % ..' * 7 <• Neither do I think the Virtues of a mi¬ neral Water difcoverable this Way, if they confift of that which is fixed : For as it is the Nature of Fire, to unite lome Parti¬ cles which were not joined together be¬ fore, and disjoin others that were, we can¬ not make any certain Judgment, whether what is found in the Refiduum, did cxift under the fame Form, in the Water before Evaporation. In fome Springs indeed, where there is a large Quantity of fixed Salt, as in Scarborough and Cheltenham Waters, this Method of Examination may take place ? but then it is to be obferved,, that thefe Salts are mifeibie again with Wa¬ ter, and in fome Degree imitate the Virtues of the original Spring, which gives us fome Proof that they are not much altered in the Procefs 5 but when the Salt procu¬ rable by this Means, gives no Virtue to other Water mixed with it, what arc we to conclude then ? And as to the Earth, which remains after Evaporation, it is certain it has undergone fome new Combination, be- caufe it will not mix and incorporate with the Water as before: Not to mention that f all