>7>5- Litharge, fa l ammoniac, lacmus, and fyrup of violets, v J^ J .e a ch of them feparately digefted with the water, exhibite d no change in their colour. Powder of gall-apples digefted with the water, while it preferved its natural warmth, produced a brown colour, as our mineral waters do in Sweden, a n d this colour was durable; I „ _ _ _ digefted with the water, after it had ftood to cool in the glafs, fcarcely gave any tinge t0 ____________ _ _ digefted with water boiled, fcarcely tinged it in the leaft. ' _ , Ochre had fettled in great quantities in the ciftern and conduits. The water Jhaken in bottles with narrow necks, generated a great number of air-bubbles. Lime-water did not produce any hepatic air, but formed feveral fmali clouds in the warm water, which foon eolledted into one without falling to the bottom. It muft be obferved, however, that the lime-water i made ufe of for this purpofe, was not fufficieritly to be depended upon. I was obliged to prepare fome myfelf from lime that was fomewhat flacked, and a quantity of water, which, for want of a better apparatus, I diftilled by means o f feveral teakettles joined together. Silver that had lain long in the water, difcovered no tokens of the prefence o f fulphur. It is generally reported of this water, that it taftes of brimftone; but in fail, no fuch mineral is to be difcovered in it, either by the tafte or fmell; the tafte predominant nant in this water being very fenfibly vitriolic, and not W ; fulphureous. Notwithftanding this, the water is pretty eafy of digeftion, and does not fit heavy- on a tolerably good ftomach. As here is hardly ever any opportunity o f donfulting a phyfician, this bath is ufed without any other method or indication than what correfponds with the caprice, or fuits the convenience of the patient; -confequent- ly, without any regular order, without the leaft attention to diet, or any diftindtion of diforders, o f which I ihall give the following inftance. A flave had io far got the better of an epidemical diftemper, with which he. had" been af- flidted, that nature was perfedting the cure by throwing out biles on the furface of his body; notwithftanding which he was fent from Zwellendam, by the lord lieutenant of that diftridi, to the bath , here, as being a never- failing remedy. In vain did 1 order him to refrain entirely from bathing, when the. greateft man in the place had commanded him to do it. A few hours from the time of the poor fellow’s firft bathing, delivered him from his biles and bondage at once. The company at the wells were in general: not at all nice with regard to the time of day for bathing, and did not hefitate to go into the bath dir.edtly after meals; and though this was fometimes really done without any remarkable bad confequences enfuing, yet it was much to be feared, that the food which the patient had. juit before taken, fliould be too fuddenly thrown into the mafs o f blood. From all the accounts I. could colledt, it was not unufual for rheumatifms and contradtions of the limbs to be entirely removed in three or four days, by the ufe of the warm
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