A dissertation on quick-lime and lime-water ... / [Charles Alston].

  • Charles Alston
Date:
1752
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    fs, more than two thirds of this Soap is pure Oil. And the fame learned Chymift, in a Memoir which he fent to Dr Hartley^ obferves, that, “ by pouring a vitriolic Acid into a Decoction of two Ounces of this Soap, he obtained one Ounce three Drams and twenty Grains of Oil of Olives: Which agrees with an Experiment made by Dr Hartley to the fame Purpofe (g)'^ Hence we fee, that even boiling Soap-leys cannot corrupt or de- ftroy the Nature of Oils: Which confirms the Obferva- tion, § 2. 3. And quo alcali purius, qtioque oleum magis jinceruni^ nec odore nec fopore ingratum, eo femper pro^ ducetur fapo melior, inque ufus inprimis medicates pulchrior»^i Vid. Boerh. Chem; 2. p. 257. ad 260. (b) The Spanifij Soap is a mild yet efficacious emol¬ lient, detergent, diuretic, and laxative Medicine; of great Ufe in the Gravel, Jaundice, and other Obftruc- tions in the Vifeera, Ifdc,; and outwardly in PainSj> flight Inflammations, Tumours, and foul Ulcers. It may be given to an Ounce, or two, in fome Circum- flances. The detergent Nature of Soap, of which none can be ignorant, intitles it to all thefe Virtues; if it be not its Effedls on Gravel-flones, of which however, by Dr Hales and Dr Whytt's Experiments, it is found to be a very powerful Diffolvent. But that it may be taken in fo large a Quantity, we much owe to Mrs Stephens’% flrange Remedy, which perhaps is the chief Benefit the Public has had by it. I faid it may be given, in fome Cir- cumftances only, to two Ounces, meaning the Stone; But for the moll part one Ounce, yea half an Ounce, is enough every Day, even in that Difeafe; becaufe it generally, in that Quantity, purges: And what goes off that Way, cannot adl on the Stone. The bell Rule therefore for regulating the Dofe in the Gravel, is, to take fo much of it as keeps the Belly foft, without pur¬ ging more than the Patient ufed to do in Health. For the Lixive, of which the Soap is made. Stone Quick-lime is commonly chofen as the ftrongeil 5 next (g) Vid. Dr Haleses Exper. p. Hi