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The 9th "experiment, which my fhort flay at 
Matlock v/ould not allow me leifure to repeat, af- 
fords a prefumption that the water is not pofleflfed of 
any Emulating powers ; for the fmall increafe of 
quicknefs in my pulfe, on drinking half a pint of 
it, may be afcribed more to the quantity received 
into the ftomach, than to the heating quality of 
the water, 
The Briftol and Matlock waters appear to refem- 
ble each other, both in their chemical and medici- 
nal qualities. I have examined and compared them « 
together by the teft mentioned above, and fo far 
as fuch trials may be be deemed conclufive, there 
feems to be no other than the following flight dif- - 
ference between them, 
Briftol water becomes a little more milky on the 
addition of a folution of fixed alkali, and of Saccha- 
rum Saturni than that of Matlock ; the former alfo , 
weighs near a grain in a pint heavier than the latter. 
Is it not to be lamented therefore, that fo little at- - 
tention is paid to Matlock, even by the phyficians . 
who refide in the neighbourhood of it? In he&ic 
cafes, haemoptoes, the diabetes, and other diforders, , 
in which the circulation of the blood is rapid and . 
irregular, I fhould apprehend that Matlock water, 
on fome accounts, claims the preference to that of 
Briftol } for it is lefs difpofed to quicken the. pulfe, 
and .may therefore be drunk in larger quantities. , 
But it : muft be acknowledged that the climate of 
Briftol is fuperior to that of Matlock, a circumftance 
of, the higheft importance to confumptive patients. . 
Situated in a deep though delightful valley, and fur- . 
rounded by very high mountains, the. fun difappears , 
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