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Reflections Upon Catholicons, or Universal Medicines; With Some Remarks on the Natural Heat That Is in Animals, and the Luminous Emanations from Human Bodies. Also the Sundry Experiments and Observations Made Upon the Human Calculus Rationally Cons

Reflections Upon Catholicons, or Universal Medicines; With Some Remarks on the Natural Heat That Is in Animals, and the Luminous Emanations from Human Bodies. Also the Sundry Experiments and Observations Made Upon the Human Calculus Rationally Cons


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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1749. Excerpt: ... the vegetable Kingdom, all manner of Salts, Spirits, faponaceous and gummy ' Bodies; but unite not with Oife, Reims, Balfams, Pitch, Colophony and Earth. Yet Tar, which has all thefe fiery Ingredients in its Compoiition, will be united and intimately incorporated with Water, as appears by the Extract obtained by evaporating of Tar-Water, which when arid and dry, being put oh a red-hot feon it is inftantly in a Bkze and when all the Signs of Ignition are vanilh'd, there remain white Afhes which readily ferment with acid Liquors.' Water is a proper Difiblvent of the faline and fpirkuous Part only; yet we find that the Body of Tar may be incorporated with Water, fo as to increafe its Bulk very confiderably, and that more or lefs according to the Quantity of Salts or acid Spirits in the Tar, as thoie Waters made of coarfe American Tar which jfeems to tafte fenfibly ftronger of the acid Spirit, whereby the whole Concrete it is attracted by the Water" upon Account of the faline Principle, but moflly by Impuliion. Alkaline Salts render Oil and Sulphur foluble in Water. Vid. Dr. Hales's Experiments and Obfervatjons on Tar-Water, p. 17. The Porofity of Water (which is the common Bafis of all Fluids except Mercury) is fo very great, that there is at leaft forty times as much Space as Matter in it. For it is obferv'd, that when Salt is infufed in Water, it does not fill the Veflel in Proportion to its own Bulk; whence it follows, that there muft be fome little Spaces between its Particles to admit thofe of the Salt. And what makes it ftill more clear and conclufive, is the Experiment related by the late Dr. Hook, concerning two Liquors (Water and Oil of Vitriol) which when mix'd together, wou'd poflefs lefs Space than when feparate, which he calls a Penetration o...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781151565068
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 30
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1151565067
  • Publisher Date: 30 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 73 gr


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