A dissertation upon the sugar of milk; in which is shwwn its great efficacy in consumptions, hectic fevers, the scurvy, vapours or hysterics ... / by J. L Dyvernois.

  • Dyvernois, J. L.
Date:
1753
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Credit: A dissertation upon the sugar of milk; in which is shwwn its great efficacy in consumptions, hectic fevers, the scurvy, vapours or hysterics ... / by J. L Dyvernois. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    other appears exadly the fame as white Sugar Candy, and is eaten by the Ladies abroad, in order to promote their Cure. Both are very agreeable to the Sight and Tafte. As a Medicine always a£ls according to its conflituent Parts, it will be pro¬ per to let down the Analyfis made of the Sugar of Milk. To fhew that it con¬ tains a very fine Nitre, put fome of it upon lighted Charcoal, and it will burn in fmall Sparks as doth Nitre; to prove that it is dcfiuùte of an Acid, and that it is a pure vclaiile Alkali, when you di- ftil it by a Retort, nothing but a Honey tailed Water will come cut; and we may be c^rttin its ha'Lmic Sulphur re¬ main.s by the Diftiilation of the fame Retort; for when the Honey-tailed Wa¬ ter cote out, it s united with a balfa- mic fulphurous OJ. FINIS. \ \ \