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Sand Bock Springs in the Isle of Wight. [Nov. 1, 
Analysis. A specimen of the judicious 
application of philosophy to statistics, js 
given in King’s Ver Stoat wid die 
Schule; and to Jurisprudence, by the 
clearthinkintr Zacharia, in his Phi/oso- 
phkche Rechtslehre. 
It cannot however be denied, that the 
influence and extravagancies of the 
newest theories, are still discernible in 
niany works, to the great detriment qf 
true philosophy, as Salat’s has shewn in 
liis Lectures on the indiflcrence lately 
shown towards it ip Germany. Attempts, 
like the proposal for studying Christianity 
as an idea a priori^ are still made in all 
the sciences. And medicine in parti¬ 
cular must here but too frequently serve 
as an arena for the contending systefn- 
builders. 
Some other articles relative to recent 
German Literature are in the hands of the 
editor, and shall be introduced within the 
tvvo or three next months. 
volume of Transactions of the Geological 
Society of London. It appears, there¬ 
fore, fiom Pr. Marcel’s conclusion, that 
each pint or sixteen-ounce measure of 
the aluminous chalybeate water coni* 
tains the following ingredients : 
Of carbonic acid ga«, three-tenths of 
a cubic inch. Craifts. 
-- Sulphat rif iron, in the state of 7 .a 
crystallijed green sulphat_ 3 "41 
^Sulphat of alumine, a quantity“J 
which if brought to the state ( a-.,- 
pf crystallized alum, would T , ° 
amount to,,.. .. 3 
Sulphat of lime, dried at 1 ^ 0 .. lO'l 
— Sulphat of magnesia, or Epsom > „ ^ 
salt, crystallised ..^ 
Sulphat of soda, or Glauber’s 7 
salt, crystallized .^ 
Muriat of soda, or common salt, 7 
crystallised .C 4*0 
— Silica . ^ .7 
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To the Rditor of the'MontJilp Magazine* ' 
SIK, 
rcif discovery that promises to be 
an advantage to mankind, more 
especially if it tends to improve the art 
of healing, and thereby lessen the cala-" 
tnities incident to the human body, can¬ 
not, I apprehend, but be interesting to 
the public in general, and to medical 
men in particular. With this view, there¬ 
fore, I beg leave to submit to the atten¬ 
tion of your readers, a short account of 
a mineral w'ater, which, about threp years 
ago, I accidentally discovered on the 
southern coast of this island. 
This water, on examination, not only 
by the taste, but by the application of 
chemical re-agents, was fqund to con¬ 
tain sulpliat of iron and sulphat of alu- 
inine; substances which, though rarely 
inet with in combination with water, yet 
exist in this in such large proportion^, 
as to give it a very distinguishing cha¬ 
racter, and render tlie other ingredients 
which'enter into its composition wholly 
imperceptible to the palate. As I have 
not been able to learn tliat any mineral 
water of the same class has hitherto been 
discovered in Lurepe, possessing such 
powerful properties as the Sand Rock 
Spring, I shall here fake tlie liberty of 
transcribing, in his owp words, th.e result 
of the .several experiments which timt 
very accurtue chemist, Dr.mJarcct, has 
recently made on this water, in order to 
determine its component parts, and wnich 
he has made the subject of a very valu- 
iihle naucr, lust published ia the f.rst 
Dr. Marcet goes on further to state, 
that he is not acquainted with any 
chalybeate or aluminous spring in the 
chemica) history'of mineral waters which 
can be compared, in regard to strength, 
with that just tlescribed. The JluUfell 
water, and that of the Borlep Green 
SpaWf near Halifax, both of which ap¬ 
pear to be analogous to this in chemical 
composition, and were considered as the 
strongest impregnations of the kind, are 
stated by Dr. Garnett to contain, the 
one only about fourteen grains, and the 
other forty 'grains of saline matter m 
each pint.*’ 
Since the period of my first discover¬ 
ing this water, I have employed it very 
extensively both in my public and pri¬ 
vate practice; and tiie result of my ex¬ 
perience of its etfects, has proved it to 
be a tonic of the most pow-erful kind, 
and as such singularly eflicacious in the 
cure of all diseases termed Jistiienic, 
arising from a relaxed habit and languid 
pirculation. In ad(|ition to the high 
opinion which I have thus bpep enabled 
to form of its good etTects, I am happy 
to have it in iny power to add the testi- 
moines of other medical gentlemen of 
the first respectability, particularly of 
my worthy friend Dr. Lempriere, phy¬ 
sician to- the forces at the Army Dep'ut 
.Hospital I!) this island, who has authov 
rized me to say Ire has given the water 
in nearly tw o hundred cases at that esta- 
biishnrent, principally consisting of those 
terminating in, or connected with, chro¬ 
nic debility; bu: ri^ore particularly tP 
