Chap. S.^ Scarborough Waters. ^H 



affected with a kind of giddinefs or intoxication ; ow- 

 ing, it may be fuppofed, to the quantity of fixed air 

 with which the water abounds. The common ope- 

 ration of this water is diuretic ; but it is alfo gently 

 fudorific j and if taken in large quantity proves ca- 

 thartic. When, however, it is required to have this 

 latter effect, k is ufeful to mix fome falts with the 

 firft glafTes. It is drunk by glafsfuls in the morning, 

 to the quantity of from one to five or fix pints, ac- 

 cording to circumftances, walking about between each 

 glafsV 



Pyrmont waters are recommended in debilitated 

 and relaxed conftitutions, attended with indigeftion, 

 low fpirits, and want of appetite. 



SCARBOROUGH, in Torkjhire. * The waters of this 

 place are chalybeate and cathartic j and they are more 

 frequented and ufed than any other water of this clafs 

 in England. There are two wells ; the one more ca- 

 thartic, the other a ftronger chalybeate. Hence the 

 latter (which is neareft the town) has been called the 

 jBalybeate fpring, the other the purging; though thef 

 are both impregnated with the fame principles, but 

 in different proportions. The purging is the moft 

 famed, and is that which is ufually called the Scar- 

 borough water. This contains fifty-two grains of cal- 

 careous earth, two of ochre, and two hundred and 

 fixty-fix of vitriolated magnefia, in the gallon: the 

 chalybeate, feventy grains of calcareous earth, one 

 hundred and thirty-nine of vitriolated magnefia, and 

 eleven of fea fait. When thefe waters are poured out 

 of one glafs into another, they throw up a number of 

 air-bubbles ; and if maken for a while in a clofe (lope 

 phial, and the phial is fuddenly opened before the 



* Elliot, p. 226. 



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