CHAPTER IX. 
ARTIFICIAL MINERAL WATERS AND CARBONATED 
BEVERAGES. 
Although attempts were made very early to imitate natural 
mineral waters, but little progress was made until after the dis- 
covery of carbon dioxid by Doctor Black in 1757 and its analy- 
sis by the French chemist, Lavoisier. It was, however, to 
Priestley, the English chemist, that we must give the credit of 
first proposing, in 1772, to impregnate ordinary water with car- 
bon-dioxid gas, and in accordance with this suggestion pre- 
scriptions were published in 1774 for the artificial production 
of Seltzers and other carbonated waters. Irom Liebig’s analy- 
sis of the Friedricksaller an artificial water was easily prepared. 
Prof. Torbern Olof Bergman, a Swedish chemist, did much 
to introduce the use of artificial mineral water. As he had 
been greatly benefited by the use of mineral waters obtained 
from Germany, and as at some times of the year it was difficult 
to obtain them, he analyzed the waters and compounded artifi- 
cial imitations with great success. He saturated water with 
carbonic ‘‘aerial’’ acid gas, and added to this the required 
quantity of mineral salts. He probably used the ‘‘agitator’’ 
devised by the French Duke de Chaulnes in the process of car- 
bonating. 
The Seltzer waters were made in 1787 on a large scale by 
Meyer, at Stettin, Germany. Paul erected a factory for the 
same purpose in Parisin 1799. In Great Britain a patent for 
impregnating water with carbon-dioxid gas was taken out in 
1807, and a similar patent was taken out in Charleston, 
S. C., in 1810. Doctor Struve, in 1815, in the city of Dres- 
den, began the manufacture of artificial mineral waters, ex- 
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