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
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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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    SE SM or EERE OMEN Ri. A ene ie ba teed Peete: . , ; ee ; 1 ae i y a Dey ob oe se AAAS @ Ditcdurte of the Sulphur-Bath. 17 * For I confidered that volatrle Alcalies, fach as are all wrizous Spirits, work not at allupon, “| nor caufe any alteration in Sulphurs > there- “YN fore it muft needs follow, that wherein fxs | and volatile alcalies do agree, or in that pro- “4 perty , which is common to them both, I “mean, theit ‘precipitating faculty, neither of “!l them is concern’d in the folutiows of Brinzftone, ‘Ml and that is’comman; bothto fxt and volatile “4 Alealies, to precipitate, what Acids have di wt {olv’d. Now the reafon why #rivous Spirits, “tll F mean volatile Alcalies (as they are call’d ) isN{ do notat all work upon Brim fone, is, becaule iN! ghey contain fo very flendera texture of Acids, ‘and no Ssulphurs Cif highly rectified) and wth) therefore are incapable by analogy of work- gi) Ing upon the aforefaid. bodies > how fixt: Alca- nil) Ges are a new’ compace of their own native ih Acids and Sulphurs, together with the. inter- mo] texture of wrinows Spirits, (from whence pro- ‘ily! ceeds its precipitating faculty) all bound up gt SH Tay the acidum of the Fire, “Cowhich 1s their i) diveulaw y and nota fimpleSalt, we elfewhere i) in our History of Tartar, declare more at | large. gilhyY bak ap Snes: i’) * While I was pondering upon-this matter, i at length methought lefpyeda great barmony in zatures works; [faw that the perform’d/th~, fame folutions of mineral Sulphurs, m{ome Saits of the bowels of the Earth, by her OWRD grey. M 3 SFyue Pe Ee a itt % a tid si ee DE Lae tee eee