Thé fame proportions, with a very trifling deviation,
were alfo found by Don Manuel Joachim Enriquez de
Paiva, royal demonftrator o f the chemical laboratory
a t Coimbra in'Portugal..
Dr. Ortega obferves, that the lightnefs of this water
is fo great, as even to enter into competition with that
o f diftilled water, the pureft we know of ; therefore
its effeds will be the more eafily accounted for : that
the heat o f the water, docs not equal that of the
blood, in a perfon in good health, and comes near to
that tepid degree, prefcribed by the phyficians in artificial
baths.
The bath of the princefs is the moft efficacious, or
at leaft abounds moil with phlogifton, and o f courfe is
better fuited to thofe diforders where the efficacy o f
this principle is defired. The king’s bath, and that o f
the countefs have fcarcely any phlogiflic vapour, which
variety makes them ftill more pleafing to the bathers,
and applicable to different complaints ; while the Pifcin'a
bath abounds chiefly with phlogifton, and is admirably
fuited to the diforders of the poor, as already obferved :
finally the two principles o f gas, and of phlogifton,
are o f fo. volatile a nature in thefe waters, that a remarkable
difference is obferved betwixt the well, and the
bath, by thofe who drink them immediately from the
fpring,
fpring, or at a diftance ; which ihews how much it
evaporates by carriage ; for which reafon it fhould not
be filled in earthen pitchers, but only hr bottles or
flafks, well, corked, and carefully fealed. This is-the
fubftance o f a public oration, pronounced by Dr. Ortega,
before a numerous affembly at Trillo, and: afterwards
publiihed by authority o f the council at Caftile,
ini virtue of their decree for that purpofe, bearing date
the. n th o f April 1778, to which are added a few trifling
eafes, with that o f the dean, o f the council, Don
Miguel- Maria- de Nava,, at the head o f them, who
found great benefit from thefe waters, and prefided at
this pompous affembly, attended by the Count de Ci-
fuentes, a grandee o f Spain, and many other noblemen
and gentlemen o f rank, as-well as feveral eminent
phyficians, furgeons, and apothecaries, who all concur
in the praifes of Trillo, and fet their names to the fails
there related.,
1’ ihall only felecl one cafe, inferted by Dr. Ortega,
and taken by him verbatim from. Dr. Mendoza, phyfician
at, Cifuentes, written at Trillo; fo early as the 18th of
July, 1714, adorned with a copperplate, reprefentingthe
virgin Mary as protedrefs o f the waters, being
ene o f the firft cures,, which, brought them, into
repute.
“ A friar