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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 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 the milk, thereby to cure the ill taste which is occasioned by some kinds of food of cows
- Title
- 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 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 the milk, thereby to cure the ill taste which is occasioned by some kinds of food of cows / by Stephen Hales.
- Author
- Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
- Publication
- London : Printed for Richard Manby ..., 1756.
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- Additional Authors
- Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
- Description
- 59, [1], 59-72 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.; 20 cm. (8vo)
- Subjects
- Note
- Date of imprint in roman numerals.
- T.p. verso blank.
- Plate signed: T. Jefferys sculp.
- Advertisement: p. [1] (2nd group).
- Error in paging: p. 47 misprinted 45.
- Indexed In (note)
- ESTC
- Call Number
- VTB p.v. 22, no. 9
- OCLC
- 23630346
- Author
- Hales, Stephen, 1677-1761.
- Title
- 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 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 the milk, thereby to cure the ill taste which is occasioned by some kinds of food of cows / by Stephen Hales.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for Richard Manby ..., 1756.
- Edition
- The second edition with an appendix, in which is an account of some farther considerable improvements made in the method of procuring plenty of fresh-water at sea, viz. three parts in four more than in the common methods of distilling ...
- Indexed In:
- ESTC T106857.
- Added Author
- Jefferys, Thomas, -1771.
- Research Call Number
- *C p.v. 400, no. 7VTB p.v. 22, no. 9