An account of the efficacy of the aqua mephitica alkalina; or, solution of fixed alkaline salt, saturated with fixible air, in calculous disorders, and other complaints of the urinary passages / by William Falconer.

  • William Falconer
Date:
1792
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Credit: An account of the efficacy of the aqua mephitica alkalina; or, solution of fixed alkaline salt, saturated with fixible air, in calculous disorders, and other complaints of the urinary passages / by William Falconer. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    indiffoluble refidaum that may remain, as much as will fill the middle part of one of the glafs machines for impregnating water with Fixible Air *. The alkaline liquor is then to be expofed toa ftream of Air accord- ing to the directions commonly given for im- pregnating water - with that fluid. When the alkaline folution has remained in this fituation till the Fixible Air ceafes to rife, a frefh quantity of the fermenting materials fhould be put into the lower part of the ma- Chine, and the folution expofed to a fecond ftream of Air, and this procefs repeated four times. When the alkaline liquor fhall have continued about 48 hours in this fituation, it will be fit for ufe, and fhould then be care- fully drawn off into perfectly clean bottles (pints are I think preferable), and clolely corked up. The bottles fhould then be B 2 olaced re] * If the falt of tartar be good, and perfectly fo- luble in the water, every ounce meaiure of the alka- line folution fhould contain feven grains and a halt of ~ akkaline falt. + The direétions given with the machines fold by Mr. Parker in i leet-ftreet, or by Mefirs. Neale and Bailey, No. 8, St. Paul’s Church- Yard, will be fuf- ficient for thofe who choofe to prepare this remedy themfeives.