Liquid consisting mainly of acetic acid and water

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Particles and organisms found in vinegar and wine, as viewed under a microscope. Etching by I. Basire, 1743.

Use the Alden Fruit Vinegar / White Brothers.

A man is whipping a donkey on as it carries the panniers which hold the vinegar that he will sell. Etching after M. Laroon, 1688.

État des marchandises que vendent et fabriquent les sieurs François Fiquet et Compagnie, marchands parfumeurs & distillateurs sur le port à Marseille.

Household receipts with uses of vinegar / Hills & Underwood.

101 recipes & uses for pure malt vinegar / by Elizabeth Craig.

Fumigating lamp : this little alembic restores viciated air to purity in ships, sick-rooms, bed chamber, &c. by throwing in the acid vapour of nitre, vinegar, foliated tartar, &c. ... the acids neutralize ... meliorating the malignity of putrid disorders ... the Empyreal Stove / Jacksons & Moser of Frith Street, Soho.

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Vinegar

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État des marchandises que vendent et fabriquent les sieurs François Fiquet et Compagnie, marchands parfumeurs & distillateurs sur le port à Marseille.

Use the Alden Fruit Vinegar / White Brothers.

Household receipts with uses of vinegar / Hills & Underwood.

101 recipes & uses for pure malt vinegar / by Elizabeth Craig.