A Memoir Concerning the Disease of Goitre : As It Prevails in Different Parts of North-America
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They aflerted, that wherever the difeafe was feen fuch calcareous waters abounded. I heard much of a certain brook, a few miles eaft of Onondago, which has the charader of producing confiderable fwel- lings of the necks of men, women, and fheep.
This is a ftrong limeflone-water** In Manlius, I was affured, that fome of the wa- ters, which are thought to occafion the difeafe, are fo ftrongly impregnated with limeflone, that they often depofit it in the ftate of a mortar (as to con- fidence) In t...he depreflions, &c. of the ground, where thefe waters have runf. I had not an oppor- tunity of feeing any proofs of this aflertion. But I did not doubt the veracity of my informant ; be- caufe I knew that water, befides diifolving a certain * See page 13.
f Some of the fprings in the Onondago- Valley are fo ftrongly impreg- nated with limeftone, that they incruft the leaves, among which they run, fo firmly with the earthly matter, that the winter's froft has no eflddt in breaking the cruft, which continues as hard as a rock.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
They aflerted, that wherever the difeafe was feen fuch calcareous waters abounded. I heard much of a certain brook, a few miles eaft of Onondago, which has the charader of producing confiderable fwel- lings of the necks of men, women, and fheep.
This is a ftrong limeflone-water** In Manlius, I was affured, that fome of the wa- ters, which are thought to occafion the difeafe, are fo ftrongly impregnated with limeflone, that they often depofit it in the ftate of a mortar (as to con- fidence) In t...he depreflions, &c. of the ground, where thefe waters have runf. I had not an oppor- tunity of feeing any proofs of this aflertion. But I did not doubt the veracity of my informant ; be- caufe I knew that water, befides diifolving a certain * See page 13.
f Some of the fprings in the Onondago- Valley are fo ftrongly impreg- nated with limeftone, that they incruft the leaves, among which they run, fo firmly with the earthly matter, that the winter's froft has no eflddt in breaking the cruft, which continues as hard as a rock.
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