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A later analysis by the celebrated Klaproth, of Berlin, who visited Carlsbad, in 1789, proved so similar to that of Becher, that, instead of relating it, I shall only give here the result obtained, in 1822, by Mr. Berzelius, who not only confirmed what had been found previously, but discovered many other constituent parts, unknown to his predecessors. His analytic proceedings are well known to learned chymists.

“The Carlsbad water,” says he, “is clear and colourless. Drunk at the wells, it tastes like weak chicken-broth; but, after some time, it contracts an alkaline and disagreable taste. It has no smell, and the existence of sulfureus hydrogen gazgas [sic] is not to be detected by any test. Heated in a closed vessel, it deposits a very small quantity of a light yellowish sediment, the colour of which indicates evidently an oxid of iron. The specific weight of the water is + 18° C 1004,975. I weighed the Sprudel, the Hygiaea, the Mühlbrunn, the Neubrunn and Spitalbrunn water, and found precisely in all the same specific weight.”

As collective result of all his analytic experiments, Mr. Berzelius found in 1000 parts of weight of the Sprudel water: