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HISTORY.
Jttimral
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.