R. Harold Morgan: Beverage Manufacture (1938)
Another
early reference of considerable research value is R. Harold Morgan's
Beverage Manufacture
(Non-Alcoholic), a British volume published in
1938. Morgan’s introductory
comments included:
The term 'mineral water' nowadays is rather a generic
one, applying not only to naturally occurring water containing mineral
salts, but is loosely used in Britain to cover all the aerated products
of a beverage factory…
The genuine mineral
water has long been known and valued for the medicinal and curative
value of its dissolved salts.
Most of them contain carbon dioxide though they are not
carbonated to the degree associated with carbonated beverages.
Records show that in the early days of civilization men sought
for a water with a pleasing taste and a beneficial action on the body.
The Greeks drank and bathed in springs of mineral water, while
the Romans founded and popularized various springs, many of which have
developed into present-day Spas.
Artificial aeration
is probably due to Priestly who suggested that water charged with carbon
dioxide could be used as a beverage.
On the other hand, a Professor Venee, of