An account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water, by blowing showers of air up through the distilling liquor; and also To have the Distilled Water perfectly fresh and good by means of a little Chalk. And an account of the great benefit of ventilators in many Instances, in preserving the Health and Lives of People, in Slave and other Transport Ships; which were read before the Royal Society. Also An Account of the good Effect of blowing Showers of Air up through Milk, thereby to cure the ill Taste which is occasioned by some Kinds of Food of Cows. By Stephen Hales, D. D. F. R. S. Member of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Paris, and Clerk of the Closet to Her Royal Highness the Princess of Wales.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Seawater--Distillation.

Seawater.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (59,[1]p., plate )

Other Title:

Account of a useful discovery to distill double the usual quantity of sea-water,

Place of Publication:

London : printed for Richard Manby, in the Old-Bailey, near Ludgate-Hill, M.DCC.LVI. [1756]

Notes:

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T106858.

OCLC:

642256662