An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and Those Most in Repute on the Continent: To Which Are Prefixed, Directions for the Impregnating Water with Fixed Air, in Order to Communicate to
Excerpt from An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and Those Most in Repute on the Continent: To Which Are Prefixed, Directions for the Impregnating Water With Fixed Air, in Order to Communicate to It the Peculiar Virtues of Pyrmont Water, and Other Mineral Waters of a Familiar Nature, Extracted From Dr. Priestley's Experiments on Air I never heard of any method of impregnating Waterrwith'fixed air but that'ah�vementioned. My thinking at all of ...
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Excerpt from An Account of the Nature and Medicinal Virtues of the Principal Mineral Waters of Great Britain and Ireland, and Those Most in Repute on the Continent: To Which Are Prefixed, Directions for the Impregnating Water With Fixed Air, in Order to Communicate to It the Peculiar Virtues of Pyrmont Water, and Other Mineral Waters of a Familiar Nature, Extracted From Dr. Priestley's Experiments on Air I never heard of any method of impregnating Waterrwith'fixed air but that'ah�vementioned. My thinking at all of reducing to practice any method ofefi'e�ting this, by air diflodged from chalk, and-ether calcareoixs. Fubl'cances, waswas owing trimmer-e accident, Being at'din net withrthe Duke of Northumberland, in the fp'ring'of'the year filaft mentioned, his Grace produced a bottle'of' water diftilled by Dr. Irving for the ufe of the navy. This water was perfe�tly tweet, but, like all dill tilled water, wanted the brifknef's and fpirit of. Frefh fpring water; when it immediately occurred to me that I couldeafily mend that water for the' ufe of the navy, and perhaps. Fupplv them with an eafy and cheap method of preventing or'curm'g the fea fcurvy, viz. By impregnatmg 1t with fixed air. For hav ing been bufy about a year before with my experiments on jcourfe of which I had afcertained the proporuonal quantity of feveralikinds of air thdt given quantmes. Of water would take up, I was at no lofs for the meteor! Of doing it in general, viz. In vert1ng a'jar filled iwith water, and convey ing air into it from bladders prev1oufly filled with air: This {chefme 'i, -immediate, ly men tioned to the Duke and the company, who all feemed to be much pleated with it, and exprefl'ed'their' Wilhes that I would attend to it, and endeavour to reduc'e 1t 1nto praca tics; which I promifcd to aradapted to, this pu'tpofe, at my lodgingsi which was very eafy, as it requu'ed no other yefi'els but fuch as are in Confiant family pie, and with this I prefentjy impregnated a quantity of the New River water, to ast makeir imbibe about its bulk of air But I was far from having hit upon the eafig/inme zbad of doing it; for my jars were of an equal 1width' throughout. however;, With thefe Vefi'els the procefs waseompleatedfifi about twentyminutes, or half an hour. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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