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• A new experimental inquiry into the nature and qualities of the Cheltenham water : To which are now added, observations on sundry other waters ; Shewing how their Properties may be ascertained, their Virtues preserved, their Impurities corrected, &c. With an appendix on the mephitic-alkaline water ; a New and Approved Remedy Against the Stone and Gravel. By A. Fothergill, M. D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal College of Physicians, and of the Medical Societies of London, Edinburgh, and Paris
  by: Fothergill, Anthony
  Published: (1788)
• Experimental observations on the water of the mineral spring near Islington : commonly called New Tunbridge Wells: tending, as well to explain and illustrate the general nature of chalybeat waters; as to demonstrate, from an obvious Comparison of its qualities with those of the Spa and Tunbridge Waters, made by an accurate Examination, that it is absolutely of the same Species with them, but greatly preferable, on Account of that advantageous Reduction of the Quantity it admits of, from its higher Impregnation, and the consequent Increase of its Efficacy. To which is subjoined, An Account of its Medicinal Virtues and Use; and of the most adviseable Methods of Drinking it in each Kind of Case
  Published: (1751)
• A treatise on the origin, nature, and virtues of chalybeat waters : and natural hot baths. With a Description of several Mineral Waters in England and in Germany. Likewise, Directions for the Preparation and Use of Artificial, Hot, Mineral-Water-Baths. To which is added, an appendix, on the selter water, with Many Remarks, especially on it's Mixture with Tar-Water. And also a dissertation on Baron Schwanberg's liquid shell; With the Process, for preparing the same. To which is annexed, occasional remarks and queries on the Glastonbury waters. By Diederick Wessel Linden, M.D
  by: Linden, Diederick Wessel
  Published: (1752)
• An essay towards a natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the principle mineral waters : of Cumberland, Northumberland, Westmoreland, Bishop-Prick of Durham, Lancashire, Cheshire, Staffordshire, Shropshire, Worcestershire, Glocestershire, Warwickshire, Northamptonshire, Liecestershire, and Nottinghamshire, Particularly those of Neville Holt, Cheltenham, Weatherslack, Hartlepool, Astrope, Cartmall &c. Wherein They are carefully examined and compared, their Mineral Contents are discovered and separated, their Uses shewn and explained &c. To which is added, a short discourse on cold and tepid bathing, and a table of the temperature of all the Warm Waters in England, and most of the Cold Baths, from Carlisle to Glocester and Oxford. Being the second volume of The mineral waters of England. By Thomas Short, M. D. of Sheffield
  by: Short, Thomas
  Published: (1740)
• The natural, experimental, and medicinal history of the mineral waters of Derbyshire, Lincolnshire, and Yorkshire : particularly those of Scarborough. Wherein, they are carefully examined and compared, their contents discovered and divided, their uses shewn and explained, and an account given of their discovery and alterations. Together with the Natural history of the earths, minerals and fossils through which the chief of them pass. The groundless theories, and false opinions of former writers are exposed, and their reasonings demonstrated to be injudicious and inconclusive. To which are added, large marginal notes, containing a methodical abstract of all the treatises hitherto published on these waters, with many observations and experiments. As also four copper-plates representing the crystals of the salts of thirty four of those waters. By Thomas Short, M.D. of Sheffield
  by: Short, Thomas
  Published: (1734)