A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson.

  • Matthew Dobson
Date:
1787
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Credit: A medical commentary on fixed air ... / By Matthew Dobson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    “- VONUFIDYED CATR A og” with Fixed Air, by the affiftance.of Dr. Nooth’s elegant glafs apparatus. _ 3. Dr. Prieftley! mentions another,.me- thod of faturating water with Fixed Air, which is to’ také’ two/veflels, and ta keep pouring the water from one into the,other, when they are. both. ofy them: held»as ;near as poflible to the yelt,.of-fome fermenting liquor. ¢*| In this manner;” » fays. the Doétor, ‘4:1 have fometimes; in the {pace of two or three minutes, made a glafs of exceedingly pleafant fparkling water, which -could hardly be diftinguifhed from very good Pyrmont, or rather Seltzer water. ye, 4.'The! duke de. Chaulnes propofes .a method: alfo of | expeditioufly faturating large quantities of water, with the Fixed | Air which ‘is accumulated, on the furface | of fermenting liquors...» A veflel,. contain- ing eight or ten gallons of water, isto be let down and fufpended near the furface © of the fermenting liquor; and the water is then to be powerfully agitated bya con- * Experiments on Air, vol... p+ 28,