Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society.

  • Boerhaave, Herman, 1668-1738.
Date:
1734
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Credit: Some experiments concerning mercury / by J.H. Boerhaave ; Translated from the latin, communicated by the author to the Royal Society. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    [ *7 ] all the Water was forced out, which is often fecretly prefent in the Mer¬ cury, I kept it thus for three Days: Then having thruft a clean dry ftrong Cork into the Mouth of the Veflel whilft it was yet warm, I faften’d it up as dole as poflible. The Head of the Bottle thus doled with a Cork, I dipt into a liquid Cement of Pitch, Rolin, Tallow, and Brimftone, and covered it over with a Linnen Cloth, which I tied faft with Packthread. When the Glals was thus made ready, I put it in a finall Wooden Box, which was lo fitted to the Bottle, that it touched the Sides of it; and the empty Spaces between the Bottle and the Box, were well filled with Bran. Then I put on a Cover, with a Hole bored in the Middle, for the Top of the Neck of the Bottle to Hand a little out. The Glals was immoveable in the Box; and it be¬ ing thus prepared, I had it faftened to the Hammering Block of a Ful- tW--- C ling-