An analysis of the medicinal waters of Tunbridge Wells.

Date:
1792
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: An analysis of the medicinal waters of Tunbridge Wells. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    bitt fuffered a fmall diminution of bulk, on mixture with nitrous air. In tliefe refpedts the water of B, upon trial, ap¬ peared the fame. EXPERIMENT THE TWENTY-THIRD. On comparing the fpecific gravity of B with C, they were found to correfpond exactly, and to exceed that of diftilled water in the proportion of 7130 to 7120. Having thus finiflied the account of the experiments made on thefe waters, let us now fee to what conclufions they will lead. Ill the firft place then it is proved, agreeable to the received opinion, (ex¬ periment ift, 2d, 3d, 5th, nth, 12th, 15th, and 16th), that they contain iron, and this in an aerated hate, that is, held in folution by union with aerial D