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'/of. CwflaHtitt an Italian phyfician had fecn in 

 the Vatican library nn old manufcript concern- 

 ing tlic fauibrious virtues of certain acidulous 

 \valers in Gothland, which I take to have been 

 thofe of Meilvi. 



5 ii. JVbat has been difiwercd by firmer F.\l*eri- 

 ments concerning the peculiar I'irtucs <>file II 'a- 

 ft'is.of MiJi'L 



HM-IKNF. made fonic experiments on the water 

 of the upper fpring, the refult> of which, though 

 they did not iiulii-ate \\'itli certainty or prccifion 

 \vhat dillcrcnt matters it contained, or in \vhaf 

 4|iiantities or proportions; yet induced that au- 

 thor to think, that there exiiled in the water a 

 certain univerfal acid, capable of acting upon 

 crude iron ore, richly impregnated with iul- 

 phur, and of producing by tliis operation vola- 

 tile vitrfot, and a portion of fcrrcous fulphur. 

 JJixrii'j thought farther, that a portion of this 

 univerfil acid, fatiirated with calcareous mat- 

 ter, formed the alum, which he imagined, he 

 difcovcrcd in the waters of Medvi. 



A^ the waters of IMedvi Iiave been fo long 

 and lo generally celebrated lor medicinal vir- 

 tues fuperior to thole of any otlu?r mineral 

 waters in Sweden, it is furprifing that no pcr- 

 fon, before me, lias l>een induced to attempt 

 ^ more accurate analyfis of them. In the year 



