S A L T S.

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&tves tlie Sal Catharticus Glauben. See Natron vi-

triolatüm;

ACETUM DISTILLATUM.

DlSTTLLED VlNEGAR.

Take of Vinegar five pints.

Diftill with a flow fire, in gläfs veffels, folong as the drops fall free from empyreuma.

R E M A R K.

The Swedilh Difpenfätory diretts the diftillationFrom a glafs fetbrt, and by a water-bdth : —that theFöürtfi parr, which firft comes over, and is phlegm,be thrown away, and, the receiver being thenfchanged, the diftillation tö be continued fo long asthe fluid comes over limpid. Beaume fays, that,thou»h what firft comes over is lefs acid than that

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which follows, it is hewever infinitely more grate-ful in fmell, and has too much acidity to defervebeing thrown away ; and the College havc thoughtthe preparation as direcled above iurEciently acid fofthe purpofes to v/hich k is applied.

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