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Title: An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor

and an account of the great benefit of ventilators in many instances, in preserving the health and lives of people, in slave and other transport ships ... also an account of the good effect of blowing showers of air up through milk, thereby to cure the ill taste which is occasioned by some kinds of food of cows.

Author: Stephen Hales


Release date: July 1, 2023 [eBook #71081]

Language: English

Original publication: United Kingdom: Richard Manby, 1756

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*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AN ACCOUNT OF A USEFUL DISCOVERY TO DISTILL DOUBLE THE USUAL QUANTITY OF SEA-WATER, BY BLOWING SHOWERS OF AIR UP THROUGH THE DISTILLING LIQUOR ***

AN
ACCOUNT
OF A
Useful DISCOVERY
TO
Distill double the usual Quantity of Sea-Water, by blowing Showers of Air up through the Distilling Liquor:

AND

An Account of the great Benefit of Ventilators in many Instances, in preserving the Health and Lives of People, in Slave and other Transport Ships, which were read before the Royal Society.

ALSO

An Account of the good Effect of blowing Showers of Air up through Milk, thereby to cure the ill Taste which is occasioned by some Kinds of Food of Cows.

By STEPHEN HALES, D.D.F.R.S.
Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris,
AND
Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the
Princess of Wales.

The Second Edition.

With an APPENDIX;

In which is an Account of some farther considerable Improvements made in the Method of procuring Plenty of Fresh-Water at Sea, viz. three Parts in four more than in the common Methods of Distilling: Also a farther Account of more Instances and Proofs of the good Effect of Ventilators in Ships: As also of the curing, in a few Minutes, the ill Taste of Turnip Milk, and of musty Liquors. Also, with great Ease, presently to make Cream or Milk Sillabubs, viz. by blowing Showers of Air up through them.

LONDON:
Printed for Richard Manby, in the Old-Bailey,
near Ludgate-Hill. M.DCC.LVI.