An inquiry into the contents and medicinal virtues of Lincomb spaw water, near Bath / [William Hillary].

  • Hillary, William, -1763
Date:
1742
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Credit: An inquiry into the contents and medicinal virtues of Lincomb spaw water, near Bath / [William Hillary]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    * ' 14 An Inquiry into the Contents 27. With a Solution of Sacchamm Sa~ turnip a whitifh, milky, pearl Colour was produced* with fomewhat of a brownifh Hue. 28. Spirit of Hartjhorn, or Spirit of Sal Ammoniac, caufe no Alteration in its Co- lour 5 neither does a Solution of Sublimate * or of Jovis, affed it. 29. OL Tart. per deliquiumy changed it to a very faint pearl ifh Colour ; it afterwards became turbid, and precipitated a fmall Quantity of a whitifh yellow Powder $ but the Change it produces is very little, and not always to the fame Degree. Acids make a fort of fmall Ebullition, or rather a very lingular inteftine vermicular Motion, and lofe of their Aciditv 5 one Ounce and half of this Water being fufficient to deftroy the Acidity of one Drop of the ftrongeft Oil of Vitriol. 30. The Water, frefh taken up, will not lather withrSoap, but curdles : When its Ochre is precipitated, and it ceafes to change Colour with Tindure of Galls [ 21.]. It readily mixes and lathers with Soap. 31. Milk boiled with this Water does not curdle in the leaft, but acquires a foft, foapy Tafte : Mix'd with new Milk, it gives it an agreeable fweetilh Softnefs. 32. A Glafs of the Water after it has been kept in an open Florence Flask fill'd to the Neck* for five or fix Months* will change to