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, 1831 - 203 pages
 

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Page 2 - the title of which is in the words following, to wit: 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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Page 121 - 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 hour of nine or ten in the morning.
Page 203 - 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
Page 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
Page 142 - from north to south, eleven feet seven inches. Length of the same from east to west, ten feet nine inches. From the top of the rock to the surface of the water,
Page 2 - 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. By John H. Steel, MD
Page 166 - not contain quite so large a proportion of the saline properties as some of the fountains at the latter place, which is very manifest both from the taste and the effects, they are unquestionably entitled to rank among the best acidulous chalybeate waters which this or any other country affords. In

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