The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne].

  • Joseph Browne
Date:
1704
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Credit: The modern practice of physick vindicated, from the groundless imputations of Dr. Pitt / [Joseph Browne]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ebullition for fome time together,/after- j _-wards fhaking the Viol again, the Effer- — vefcence wou'd begin afrefh, till the Spi- | rits at laft had diffolv'd all the Vierioliae or Sulphureous Particles, remaining in the feces. After this I decanted the Spirits, and gently dried the Refidence, which I : found impair’d above a third pare of the | weight it had before this infufion, and- wholly devoid of that naufeous Vitriolick : Tait. and pungency which it had before; - and when I came to. pus this fame Refi- dence into’ frefh Spirits of Vitriol, it im-— mediately precipitated’ to ‘the bottom’, © without fo much almoft as muddying 9 : the © “Spitit, orcaufing any other further altera- F «with Spirit of Wine, asit had done before ‘in the tryal made with Spirit of Pieriol. So that by thele examinations, TP found this Water (as common with the Sotigh — Water of other Coal-Mines) might not improperly be call’d a Sulphureo-Fittioline Waters, “ended IGRI, Or / t 6 ie Ee iN bet Fey +a Bea eye GN 4) LA ood a < nial BP way ta 1 s Mio; ity tt 2 7 i Fi eat a Ae ; 4 , .. ore Ae Lats py Me. phere : + & ie ey ae 4 an: iy ne ae 4 a Alc 3 ot Ua, - And itifeems to me plain, that what ‘Mineral Tait, or other effects this Water — had, was:wholly owing. to the veils ‘ ‘ ps i ; i] | j