An Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Saratoga and Ballston: With Practical Remarks on Their Medical Properties; Together with a History of the Discovery and Settlement of These Celebrated Watering Places, and Observations on the Geology and Mineralogy of the Surrounding Country

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G.M. Davison, 1838 - 203 halaman

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Halaman 122 - It would be much better for those whose complaints render them fit subjects for its administration, if the fountain should be locked up, and no one suffered to approach it after the hours of nine and ten in the morning. If it should be locked up at all hours of the day and night, and a stream of pure, soft water substituted, the advantage to the invalid portion of the guests would be still greater.
Halaman 17 - Captain General and Governor in Chief, in and over the Province of New York and the Territories depending thereon in America...
Halaman 202 - Much interest has been excited on the subject of the source of these singular waters ; but no researches have as yet unfolded the mystery. The large proportion of common salt found among their constituent properties may be accounted for without much difficulty. All the salt springs of Europe, as well as those of America, being found in geological situations exactly corresponding to these, but the production of the unexampled quantity of carbonic acid gas, the medium through which the other articles...
Halaman i - The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them.
Halaman 184 - ... be less objectionable ; but there are numerous persons who flock about the springs during the drinking season, without any knowledge of the composition of the waters, and little or none of their effects, who contrive to dispose of their directions to the ignorant and unwary, with no other effect than to injure the reputation of the water and destroy the prospects of the diseased.
Halaman 143 - Cane, which burdens almost every book which treats upon the carbonic acid gas since the peculiar properties of that air have been known, would never have been heard of beyond the environs of Naples, while this fountain, in its place, would have been deservedly celebrated in story, and spread upon canvas, to the admiration of the world, as one of its greatest curiosities.
Halaman 202 - ... held in solution, is yet, and probably will remain, a subject of mere speculation. The low and regular temperature of the water seems to forbid the idea that it is the effect of subterranean heat, as many have supposed, and the total absence of any mineral acid, excepting the muriatic, which is combined with soda, does away the possibility of its being the effect of any combination of that kind. Its production is therefore truly unaccountable.
Halaman 183 - These waters are so generally used, and their effects so seldom injurious, particularly to persons in health, that almost every one who has ever drank of them assumes the prerogative of directing their use to others ; and were these directions always the result of experience and observation, they would...
Halaman 144 - I measured it, and found the circle of the basin ninety-five feet in diameter, and the height from the top of the rock to the surface of the water was forty-five feet.
Halaman ii - In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Northern District of New York.

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