Notes on Spa and its chalybeate springs / by Thomas Cutler.

  • Cutler, Thomas, 1810-1879
Date:
1854
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Notes on Spa and its chalybeate springs / by Thomas Cutler. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by Royal College of Physicians, London. The original may be consulted at Royal College of Physicians, London.

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    AiiiiIjhI.h. If it be admitted that those waters which contain in a given volume the greatest amount of medicinal substances may claim the highest rank among mi- neral waters, it is no less a matter ofcommon notoidety that there are mineral waters remarkably deficient in the aggregate quantity of these, which nevertheless possess a most powerful action on the economy. The activity of a mineral water depends principally on its solvent powers and on the nature and more or less perfect affinities of the soluble substances themselves. A mineral water should be therefore drunk immedi- ately at the source if its solvent powers depend upon, or are augmented by, the presence of carbonic acid or
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