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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    : oe Pk Me Fermentation, ae: | parated. Thus my ingenious Friend Mr. Ne} : ifher hath feparated an eitdion out of a con- | crete bitumen got out of Lead-mines in the l na Peake’ in Derby rire ( notfar from Buxton hot : ‘wt! Bath ) which isan Ehétrical Concrete, as alfo itt’ hath done the like from the reft of the laft re- | cited mineral bodies : And the like acidum ‘| bath been drawn from a bituminous funcus wo} found in thofle parts. 3 | Nowcome we to treat of our fecond fort V| of acidum, which is one of the chief i1 qgre- in| dients or principles of our latter fort of Fer- ite | mentation to benumbred a among{t the c Bebe wl Of fome Aot Baths, and that isa uperindue & a i | acidum, viz, the current of a hving Spring | (as fach are cal led) inits fubterraneal pa flages, ie] meeting with fome Salfsin Embrio or Bed of nt Barth, 1m ipregnated with acid juic es, of which } fort. are all or moft of the wizeral Salts, whiltt | in ‘a before they Dy a further maturity reach | the ftate of conere [fay pafiing thro ugh hi | thefe Beds, wenthice as reaion of 5 its facile , § tmbibition of fuch juices ) acuated therewith, | aid then falling into a bed of Brimftone, ot , Pother szinerals or pyrites, Gc. impregnated 4 with Sulpbur, begins a (olution thevebe {o gratfeth a Eb opnentttion betwixt the Sulphur , | and the fapervening acid - which gives heat to 4 the mater; and aia more or lefs fot, ac- } cor di cared to the More O r lefs powe rfulnels o f the Acid and ahile as it paffeth: As al = red
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