The inaugural dissertation of Karl Friedrich Kielmeyer (1765-1844), a natural scientist at his time high renown and praised by Goethe, here is presented the first time by a modern Latin-German edition. Kielmeyer describes the strictly systematical analysis of two mineral springs and discusses their medical applications. The difficult scientific terminology, which still contains alchemistic terms and is influenced by the phlogiston theory, in our edition is explained in detail. The German translation contains the German special terms used at Kielmeyer’s time which in the commentary are  fully explained by the notions of modern chemistry.
All people interested for the history of sciences, specially for the history of analytic chemistry, as well as those who are interested for the life and work of an outstanding scholar of the German Romantic era, should get themselves this latin-german edition.