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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$cima 2 pee ae. ox y a oe * F ss ; 5 San oP ae zs : Of Fermentation = = = = —§ 4g i (gi Juices, Whether naturally or artificially prepe- ling) ved, proceed not from the contrariety Of Salts |Cas many worthy perfins urge) is evident, |becaufe there is no fuch EbxUition amongtt ~| Salts, but what are from the contrariety and | feruglings of Acids and Alcalies, whereas no | man ever yet could make it appear that thofe | winerals either,in Jucco, or in aual concretion, )) qf] Contanrd any fort of Alcalies, either fixed or {d) volatzle. But onthe contrary its moft certain, 7 ‘yl ftom zrrefragrable experiments, that Sulpkurs (| and Acids are {eparable ftom them all. vi) And as before we have fhewed, the Fer- ., jl Mentation of minerals to conftt in the collifien d aNd évteftine wrestlings of their Acid and Sul- \| phur, as the caufes of hot Baths, &c. So the 4 | | Permentation 1 animals is no lels obfervable Ato proceed from the like inward firuglines of aafther imbred Acid and sulphur: continually “TCtull they dye ) kept on foot in the body of jazimals, and that willappear, if we conlider “. (their implanted acid juices ( the very founda- it7on of all Ferments ) and the daily occurrence M Tof fach fort of Food, in whole téxture both pAcidand Sulphur, chiefly Sulphur, doth refide, “in order to the keeping) thole Ferments at 1 hwork, for the nourifhirg and upboldiieg the Wabrickh of thole bedies. ™) The firft wheel Cas } may fay ) of the® iF erments, or the primordial Stamina of acids EL in$