Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson].

Simpson, W. (William), active 1665-1677

Date:: 1675

Credit: Zymologia physica. Or a brief philosophical discourse of fermentation, from a new hypothesis of acidum and sulphur. Whereby the phoenomena of ... hot-baths ... are solv'd ... With an additional discourse of the sulphur-bath at Knarsbrough ... / [W. Simpson]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$» sete. a ra a aR gee SS - 5 | | IEE Of Fermentation. 95 jand sulphur are fointerwoven with a volatile | wrinons Spirit or Salt, as that by force of Fire io] they.do colliqnefcere, melt down into a body iwc] diflolvable per deliquium, which is generally int} efteemed a fimple Salt, but having difcourtt ui| largely thereof in our Halologia, thal now 7 | wave it, and onely fay, that thefe fixt 4lcalzes mt C vulgarly reputed folitary Salts _) being new i textures of the 7atrinftck principles, do by that ‘all wentrality of Effence they are wrought into by hese Fire, from new complications, I fay, do |) make di ferent afjaults upon Acids then before. ty! Hence it 1s, that upon a double account, as. ini Pfaid, that ciel mixed with thefe Alealle’ | td may caufe an effervefcence, viz. either as meet= 4.) ing with the s#phur clofe bound up with the “| Acid and urinous Spirit or Salt in the compage (of the Alcali, and fo to caufe an Ebullition mM Sad Heat, according to our forefaid prévcz- al wi | ples 3 3 or as meeting with the wolatile urinous . Salt clo rivetted with the s wy and’ Acza, 4) may either way caufe an effervefcence. ail Onely this difference ( which 1s confidera- \| ble) isto be noted betwixt thee F ermentati- | ows made between Acids and Sulphurs as they 1 A frppen in petrifick concretions, and fizct lixivi- lal Alcalies ; fromthofe which happen. in the .| general courfe of wature, inafmuch as Fermen- | tatzons Which are {et awork amongit animals, Sh | vegetables, yea, and many szinerals, do produce = = = “b> é$