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1 \ A I. YN1 * 



OF THE 



WATERS, AND THE CARLSBAD 

 SALT. 



ABOUT the middle of the sixteenth century, 

 C. G. Springsfeld and J. G. Tilling, saxon physicians, 

 attempted to analyse the waters of Carlsbad 5 but why 

 should we recall at present the proceedings and 

 notions of infant chymistry? 



We are indebted to David Becher, of Carlsbad 

 (born in 1725, -J- 1792), whose multifarious merits 

 can not be too much praised, for the first regular 

 analysis of our waters, in 1770, and Berzelius him- 

 self, in 1822, expressed the highest admiration for the 

 talent and chymical knowledge displayed by Becher, 

 with such imperfect means. He examined the Sprudel, 

 the Neubrunn, the Gartenbrunn (now Theresienbrun), 

 and the Schlossbrunn . and found in all the same 

 constitutive parts, viz: 



