Fermented liquors : a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general / by Lewis Feuchtwanger.

  • Feuchtwanger, Lewis, 1805-1876.
Date:
1858
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Credit: Fermented liquors : a treatise on brewing, distilling, rectifying, and manufacturing of sugars, wines, spirits, and all known liquors, including cider and vinegar. Also, hundreds of valuable directions in medicine, metallurgy, pyrotechny, and the arts in general / by Lewis Feuchtwanger. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, through the Medical Heritage Library. The original may be consulted at the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Harvard Medical School.

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    PEEFACE KuMERous pamphlets containing recipes and guides for the distiller have of late years been promul- gated ; none, however, have realized the just expec- tations of those men who are trafficking in fermented liquors. They searched in vain for information, but could not find it, and were disappointed in their jDur- chases. The subject of distilling and brewing has not been treated as a science, and the author con- ceived the idea that such a vacancy may be supplied by his humble efforts. He has devoted several years to the investigation of this branch of chemistry, and has spent the great- er part of his life in the study of natural history and philosophy; and he feels, therefore, that his claim for issuing a work bearing on these studies may have some weight with those persons who have long been acquainted witli him. Although he is constrained to confess that he was not fully prepared to send forth to the public a full and comprehensive treatise on such important sub- jects as the title-page would indicate, and would