1892 The flowing bowl when and what to drink (1892, c1891)

HISTORY.

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ALTHOUGH the first experiments for imitating nat- ural mineral waters may be traced back to the middle of the sixteenth century, yet nearly three centuries passed by before the manufacture of them left the track of aimless experiments and was based upon correct scientific principles. The gigantic development of chemistry during the last decades of the eighteenth and the first decades of this century enabled scientific men to prove the ele- mentary compounds of the mineral waters both qualita- tively and quantitatively. To Frederick Adolphus Augustus Struve, M. D., proprietor of the Salomon's drug store in Dresden, Sax- ony, we are indebted for the introduction of the mineral waters into our pharmacopoeia. Aften ten years' rest- less experiments, he opened his first water pavilions in Dresden and Leipsic in the year 1820, the first one in Berlin in the year 1823, together with Geheimrath Soltmann. The first pioneer who undertook in this country the manufacture of mineral waters with great success, is, to our knowledge, Mr. Charles H. Schultz, and many others followed his footsteps.