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Note. — As I believe that my analyfis of the Lucan water is a nearer approxima- 

 tion to the truth than any hitherto publilhed, and perhaps fufficiently accurate for 

 medical purpofes, I fhall here fubjoin it. — To thofe who are acquainted with the 

 difhculties attending the inveftigation of the ingredients of an hepatic water, it will 

 not afford any furprife that I fliould offer the refult of mine with diffidence. 



The carbonate of lime is held in folution by an excefs of carbonic acid, amounting 

 to about 32 cubic inches in two gallons of the water. — The fulphur is in the ftate j 



of fulphurated hydrogen. 



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