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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    ceive how this fhould be otherwife; for the aerial acid, which everybody will acknowledge to be the principal agent here, is heavier than common air, and there is a free communication with the atmofphere immediately over the fur- face of the water: what then, can pre¬ vent this acid from efcaping ? Muft it not, in confequence of its weight, make its way to the outlet, or aperture, as the water does, and be continually difli- pated ? There is no doubt it muft; and were it not, that the water contained in the bafon, being fmall in quantity, is undergoing a perpetual change, we have reafon to believe, that in the fupe- rior part of it the effects of expofure would be fenfible. With regard to the manner in which thefe waters may be fuppofed to receive their impregnation; it is probable, that the fpring from which they originate is at a confiderable depth, within the