Note 53 — Chapter XXIV
Reading edition
Here is the analysis of a famous sulphur-bath at Sulphur Point, about a mile from Ohinemutu. The cures it has effected are so wonderful and undoubted that it is generally known as The Painkiller.
Analysis.—Sulphate of potash, 2.96; of soda, 34.37; chloride of sodium, 59.16; of calcium, 3.33; of magnesia, 1.27; of iron, 0.25; silica, 16.09; hydrochloric acid, 7.60; sulphuretted hydrogen, 2.01: traces of phosphate of alumina, lithium, and iodine;—total, 127.04.