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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 : $b 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 ... 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. — John Shaqi

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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 : $b 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 ... 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.

Name: 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 : $b 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 ... 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.
Author: Hales, Stephen

Hales, Stephen

Seawater -- Distillation; Ships -- Heating and ventilation

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
Milk, thereby to cure the ill Taste which is occasioned by some Kinds
of Food of Cows.

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  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_.

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  _The_ Second Edition.

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  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: Also a
 farther Account of more Instances and Proofs of the good Effect of
 Ventilators in Ships: As also of the curing, in a few Minutes, the ill
 Taste of Turnip Milk, and of musty Liquors. Also, with great Ease,
 presently to make Cream or Milk Sillabubs, _viz._ by blowing Showers
 of Air up through them.

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 _LONDON_:
 Printed for Richard Manby, in the _Old-Bailey_,
 near _Ludgate-Hill_. M.DCC.LVI.




AN ACCOUNT OF THE

 Great Benefit of blowing Showers of Fresh Air
 up thro’ Distilling Liquors.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

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