XVI. An Analysis of the Mineral Waters of Dunblane and 

 Pitcaithly ; with general Obsei'vations on the Analy- 

 sis of Mineral Waters^ and the Composition of Bath 

 Water and some others. By John IMuruay, M. D. 

 F. R. S. Edin. 



(Read November 20. 1814.y 



I Propose to submit to the Society the analysis of a Mineral 

 Water of the Saline Class, which has lately been discover- 

 ed in the neighbourhood of Dunblane. The subject may have 

 rather more interest than usually belongs to researches of this 

 nature, from the composition of this water being such as pro- 

 mises to afford a spring of considerable medicinal efficacy, and 

 fi'om its resemblance to another mineral water, of some ce- 

 lebrity, — that of Pitcaithly, the analysis of which I have, 

 from this circumstance, been also led to undertake. The in- 

 vestigation, too, may afford some illustrations of the different 

 methods that may be employed in the analysis of waters of 

 this class, and of the facility and precision which are given to 

 these researches, by the results that have been established with 

 regard to the definite proportions in which many bodies com- 

 bine, and the uniformity of the relations which thus exist be- 

 tween the compounds they form. And it has led to some 

 views with regard to the constitution of mineral waters of the 

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