| Description Of Item | The volume contains different essays and lecture notes: 'The History of Chymistry' by William Cullen (pp1-381); 'Chymical History of Vegetables' by William Cullen in 16 lectures (pp385-481); 'Method to prevent accidents in distilling' (p483); 'Receipt for two gallons of eau de carmes', 'To prepare the vulnerary water known by the name of eau d'Arquebusade', 'Of Bergamot water', 'An excellent liquor good against flatulencies', 'To make red ratafia' and 'Of Royal water' (pp484-485); 'Essay on the Nature and Properties of Nitre' (pp491-493); 'Natural history of camphor' (pp493-495); 'Natural history of the sea shrub' (pp495-496); 'Some properties of the ash tree discovered by M Tablet an eminent French physician' (p496); 'A Table of the specific gravity of many sorts of denser bodies made by the celebrated Dr Meuder, after many accurate and repeated trials lately published by M [Johann Friedrich] Henekel in his Pyritologia' [published 1757] (pp499-501); 'An account of some new experiments on human blood' (pp503-506); 'Extract of some trials made by Stephen Hales DD FRS to keep water and fish sweet with lime water etc' (pp506-509); 'A method of extracting sugar from common plants by M [Andreas Sigismund] Marggraft of the Royal Academy of Sciences at Berlin' (pp509-512); 'Method of rectifying the stench and corruption of fresh water' (pp512-513); 'An accompt of some preservatives (with their processes) against hunger and thirst' (pp513-514); 'Observations on the melancholy consequences attending foul and putrefied air with a description of a machine for extracting it out of ships by M Du Hamel' with printed diagram of apparatus (pp515-517); 'Collateral bee boxes' (p518); 'An Account of some further improvements made in the methods of distilling great quantities of sea water since the publication of the book on that subject by the Reverend Dr [Stephen] Hales' (pp519-521); 'Of the dysentery or as it is commonly called the flux' (pp523-533); 'Remarkable case - tibia deprived of its periosteum' with illustrations of the bones (pp539-542); 'A particular method of recovering persons who are drowned, exemplified in the case of a young woman who had lain some hours under water - from the Journal Historique sur les matieres du Tem [Temps] for December 1758' (p543); 'Case from Dr Hillary's observations on the air and diseases in Barbadoes' [published 1759] (p544); 'Case of homonymous or equivocal generation' (pp544-545); 'Case from the honourable Robert Boyle' (pp545-546); 'Observations upon the manchinello apples' (p546); 'Effectual means for preserving the health of seamen extracted from Dr [James] Lind's essay' [published 1753] (pp547-550); 'Extract of a letter from on board His Majesty's ship the Torbay of 74 guns relative to a method of preserving the health of sailors' December 1760 (p550); and 'Treatment of the scurvy on board His Majesty's ship the America in her voyage to East India' 1760 (p551). |